is it important to have a sitemap for a blog?

[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?

[incrediblehelp]

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]

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]

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


Regards
Subhash
subhzash@gmail.com

[christucker]

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]

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]

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]

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

[UTOPIA]

Definately use a sitemap, there is no good reason not to really.

[aadisharma]

Sitemap is always good whether you have a blog or website. And if anyone wanto crerate an XML sitemap for their wordpress blogs (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/), can do from here

[srblogger]

I think a sitemap is imperative. And define it in your Webmaster Tools account: Google Webmaster Central (http://www.google.com/webmasters/#utm_medium=et&utm_source=us-en-et-bizsol-0-finderB-all&utm_campaign=en)

[ganguly21]

I also have a blog of mine... Not much old I'm working on it on daily basis, I mean posting daily.. My question is my posts are getting indexed on the same day, But I can't find my home page indexed, it does very rare.. can say once in 15 days.. Will site map help me to gain some indexing boost...???

I'm very excited about this blog.. You can check my blog in my signature..
pls advice...

[myx20]

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


Oh I see... thank you very much. I'm not so sure about my idea regarding the importance of a site map in a website before. But now, atleast I've confirmed that my idea is somehow correct. ;)

[development]

Your site would have to be of substantial size before it is necessary to have a site map. I am hoping that I will need to use one for my blog--I am adding to it daily and have been blogging for a month now, but it is no where near the size yet for needing a map.

[full house]

its better to place a site map for users, so that they can find what they need and also for bots to crawl your site better. Make sure to broken links.

[romioaa]

Sitemaps are always important for blogs, it will help SE to crawl your website faster

[Hsekhar]

It's always better to have a sitemap on the blog if it is a big blog or a small one which is still days' old. The sitemap would guide the Search Engines' spiders and make sure they follow each and every post on your site.

[troublescoot]

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?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

[ottoskorzeny]

Hell yes. Sitemap are required for SEO for ANY website.

[JamesBang]

Does anyone know if and where I can get a sitemap generated for free beyond 500 pages? xml-sitemaps.com is good but has a 500 page restriction.

[subhzash]

Does anyone know if and where I can get a sitemap generated for free beyond 500 pages? xml-sitemaps.com is good but has a 500 page restriction.

Use XENU which is free tool you can download from download dot com.

It gives you broken links report as well as sitemap also. Its a free tool and no restriction for number of pages


Regards
Subhash

[JamesBang]

Thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't find it on download.com. Do you have a link to it?

[inertia]

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/XENU.ZIP - very powerful tool when you get into it... Good for assessing your site architecture, finding duplicate title, images missing alts etc etc...

[JamesBang]

Thanks for the link! Anyone know where I can get something similar which will generate an unlimited XML sitemap?

[JamesBang]

Does anyone know if the unlimited sitemap on Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/) is limited to one domain or, when you buy it, you can use it on as many websites as you like?

[loosapphire]

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/XENU.ZIP - very powerful tool when you get into it... Good for assessing your site architecture, finding duplicate title, images missing alts etc etc...
I have used this tools for years. It always help me a lot to create a sitemap. Not bad choice!

[innominds]

Building sitemap is very essential for any site or blog. It informs the search engines about your website. Note that the sitemap is acknowledged by all the BIG 3 Search Engines.

[Niche]

Hang on a minute guys.

I have a few blogger blogs and for the life of me I do not know if it's possible to create a sitemap for blogger blogs. [Must find out] But my point is I get a fair amount of traffic to those blogs without a site map

Posts get indexed quickly, often within a couple of hours and I get good SERP position for a large number of my posts.

Agreed that sitemaps are incredibly valuable for websites but I truly wonder how much so for blogs especially blogger blogs.

[Brandon Hutchins]

I believe it is important to navigate through the site....but how to do it?

[jordy3738]

Yes, a sitemap is important...I've only heard one top SEO guy say that it wasn't necessary for blogs.

[mobisian]

Actually you don't need a site map if your site is built spider friendly, but the real issue comes when the site gets bigger & bigger and having a site map becomes a must to welcome the spiders crawl your pages... And, the same story goes for blogs too. If it is bigger, then have a site map.