XML sitemaps....

[dev123]

hi all,

What do you think of using XML sitemaps? and why sitemap is important.

Thanks
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[Wade]

ya its good for se to crawl site easily.

[bob]

Sitemaps protocol enables you to inform search engine about your pages which are available for crawling. Submitting a Sitemap to Google just became even easier, I hope this google post would help you to create sitemap easily.

[LeifNisaan]

Its particularly benificial when users are unable to reach all the areas of an website through browseable interface.

[Maria_David]

hi

XML site maps are all time best for the Search Engine Crawlers ....

[~ServerPoint~]

XML site maps are all time best for the Search Engine Crawlers ....

I believe every SE have own recomendations for the site maps. And that is always up to you. To use that or not to use.

[evans11]

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

[shakir]

By submitting to Google XML site map is informing all the URL for crawling and also some parameter telling to G about the last updated date and also updating intervelll...

[Oracle]

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.

Sitemaps are particularly beneficial on websites where:

some areas of the website are not available through the browsable interface, or
webmasters use rich Ajax or Flash content that is not normally processed by search engines.
The webmaster can generate a Sitemap containing all accessible URLs on the site and submit it to search engines. Since Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask use the same protocol now, having a Sitemap would let the biggest search engines have the updated pages information.

Sitemaps supplement and do not replace the existing crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. By submitting Sitemaps to a search engine, a webmaster is only helping that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling their site(s). Using this protocol does not guarantee that web pages will be included in search indexes, nor does it influence the way that pages are ranked in search results......

[lesterbeach1573]

When you take a in-depth study in your web site statistics, you will find that very few people were visiting the site map. Visitors to your site will almost never use them.

[arslan220]

site map is important for link structure.

[bermuda]

If your website has decent and very good Html sitemap pages, an XML sitemap might not be even needed because all of the crawling bots will easily crawl and visit your pages sections but since XML is a universal technology nowadays and the main engines can easily download and find the URLs in them, they are recommended to add to sites.

[Jenie0109]

If your website has decent and very good Html sitemap pages, an XML sitemap might not be even needed because all of the crawling bots will easily crawl and visit your pages sections but since XML is a universal technology nowadays and the main engines can easily download and find the URLs in them, they are recommended to add to sites.

you said XML is a universal technology... Even if you built your website with a very good coding.. You still need one. As you've said.."it is recommended".

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[Jenie0109]

When you take a in-depth study in your web site statistics, you will find that very few people were visiting the site map. Visitors to your site will almost never use them.

The purpose of making sitemaps is for search engine bots not for the visitors... It will guide SE spiders about your updated site