is it important to have a sitemap for a blog?

christucker · #1 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 01:12 AM

i run a site that has a wordpress blog as well as a (coppermine) photo gallery. is it important to have a sitemap for this?

**incrediblehelp** · #2 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 12:36 AM

Get a blog started. Matt Cutts recently mentioned on Webmaster Tools call that this one thing would be his best advice for better result son Google

inertia · #3 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 05:53 AM

A site map becomes more and more important as your site/blog gets bigger and bigger. Very small sites don't need one but as a site gets more in-depth a site map acts as a street map for the search engine spiders making all those deep pages a lot easier to find.

subhzash · #4 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by christucker

i run a site that has a wordpress blog as well as a (coppermine) photo gallery. is it important to have a sitemap for this?

Sitemap is important for blog or website. Sitemap is like index, for example when we read the book first we see index to know about chapters. In the same manner is sitemap serves like a index for visitors as well as for search engines

In wordpress if you integrate google sitemap plugin you generate sitemap with one click and as well as you can ping your blog in major blog search engines

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Subhash
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christucker · #5 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 02:45 AM

thanks for the great advice. i just got the plugin for wordpress, installed it in on my blog with no problems, created the sitemap, and linked it up to my google webmaster tools account.

francis84 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-05-2008, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by christucker

i run a site that has a wordpress blog as well as a (coppermine) photo gallery. is it important to have a sitemap for this?

Sitemap is use in a blog ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE TONS OF BLOG ENTRIES. This is done for two good reasons: 1) so that your old posts wouldnt be buried down; 2)SE Spider can crawl your HUGE blog easily.

kronikmedia · #7 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 06:22 PM

I agree. Small blogs do not necessarily need a sitemap. Wordpress blogs doa good job of being indexed by Google nevertheless as for some reason it is more search engine friendly that other blog software around. For larger blogs stemap is important not only for search engine spiders but also for users. You will be surprised how many users actually look at sitemaps to find useful information on a website.

avoir des goûts simples · #8 (**permalink**) 06-29-2008, 10:36 PM

Agreed, sitemap offers the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site