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joomlads07
03-23-2011, 09:27 AM
Can anyone please let how important is sitemap in search engine ranking. Does it play any kind of role in SERP ?
C.Rebecca
03-25-2011, 09:26 AM
Its like asking 'Is SEO important for ranking high on SEs' ?
Ofcourse it is important.
SEO is all about making Google understand your website. And sitemap helps Google do that
mjtaylor
03-25-2011, 02:21 PM
Its like asking 'Is SEO important for ranking high on SEs' ?
Ofcourse it is important.
SEO is all about making Google understand your website. And sitemap helps Google do that
With all due respect, neither sitemaps nor SEO are important for ranking high on search engines if your content is kickass and your site is navigable.
Sitemaps are only important for search engines if they would have trouble discovering pages without them. Smaller, simpler sites simply do not need them.
HTMLBasicTutor
03-25-2011, 04:03 PM
Can anyone please let how important is sitemap in search engine ranking. Does it play any kind of role in SERP ?
A traditional site map (note the spelling) is important for your visitors and all search bots. It can be crawled by any search bot and helps get your pages indexed through the bots following the links on the site map. An XML sitemap is only supported by certain search bots. Also, Google does not guarantee that submitting a Sitemap will get your pages indexed.
Even Matt Cutts has said, if you have limited resources, do the traditional site map first then the XML sitemap. i.e. have both but do the HTML site map first.
craigmn3
03-25-2011, 04:56 PM
in regards site map does have one important benefit. It will put all your page links up to the top levels of your website...which will allow them to be more easily indexed by the search engines, which often don't venture down to the deep levels
you might have to make several because of the links per page limit (@100) (html)
deepsand
03-25-2011, 09:05 PM
A traditional site map (note the spelling) is important for your visitors and all search bots. It can be crawled by any search bot ...
Given that there is not a single format for HTML site maps, such may or may not be the case.
mjtaylor
03-26-2011, 07:13 AM
in regards site map does have one important benefit. It will put all your page links up to the top levels of your website...which will allow them to be more easily indexed by the search engines, which often don't venture down to the deep levels
you might have to make several because of the links per page limit (@100) (html)
I believe there is no longer a limit of 100 links per page, though for users, it is wise, but Google has no issue with more than 100 links per page.
chineseseoshifu
03-26-2011, 08:45 AM
Sitemaps are what help search engines find the URLs of web pages of your website, so it helps indexation, but that is all.
It doesn't help you with the rankings - how sitemaps point URLs to search engines doesn't include factors that improves rankings, for example, anchor text.
So to simplify, a sitemap only tells search engines that there is a certain URL, but doesn;t say what the URL is about, which means your rankings for some keyword may actually be harmed if there are too many sitemaps that contain the URL you would like to rank for the keyword.
deepsand
03-26-2011, 02:44 PM
Given that, for those SEs which support its being uploaded on command, an XML site map guarantees prompt discovery, it would be wise to employ such.
Prodigal
03-27-2011, 03:10 AM
Sitemap is relevant or its irrelevant?, it all depends on the internal link system of your site,
its basically used by crawlers to discover pages which would otherwise not possibly be crawled (mainly due to lack of inter-linking)
an XML site map guarantees prompt discovery
Exactly! and with that being said, it won't harm anyone to deploy a sitemap :)
edhan
03-27-2011, 03:40 AM
In my personal opinion, having a sitemap is useful for visitors in terms of navigation. I always love to use sitemap on a site as it helps me to narrow down what I am looking for. So, having a sitemap will enable search engines to show in search result more accurately.
But I think it is more useful for visitor like me.
benivolentsoft
03-28-2011, 02:07 AM
Sitemaps and Rss necessary for search engines if they might have bother discovering pages while not them.
assignhelp
03-28-2011, 02:33 AM
Can anyone please let how important is sitemap in search engine ranking. Does it play any kind of role in SERP ?
Are you talking about sitemap.xml or sitemap.html?
Bliss Ellison
03-28-2011, 02:43 AM
I am also positive about the sitemap pages as it supports the crawler to realize the inter linking of your site and facilitates the visitors to navigate through your site in a disciplined manner.
deepsand
03-28-2011, 10:04 PM
Are you talking about sitemap.xml or sitemap.html?
Had you first read the thread, you would know that both have already been addressed, such that this question is now moot.
trtm111
03-29-2011, 01:37 AM
Ya.....sitemap is important to SEO,without sitemap, your pages will not discovered.The sitemap contains the information where all your pages are.So, it is important to show your pages to search engines.
deepsand
03-29-2011, 02:17 AM
... without sitemap, your pages will not discovered.
This is quite incorrect.
The discovery of a single external link pointing to one of your pages is sufficient for an SE to discover each and every URL that is traceable back to the index/home page.
deepsand
03-29-2011, 03:06 PM
yes obviously, Sitemap is important for SEO. Your all site's pages crawl by Google spider in fast mode.
No such thing as "fast mode."
The htaccess file will be in the root directory.
htaccess has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Sitemap helps to index all the webpages of a site.There are two types of sitemap. One is HTML & XML Sitemap.The HTML Sitemap is for humans whereas the XML is for search engines.
Needless repetition.