SEO Specific Sitemaps by Hit4SEO
The structure of your website plays a key role in obtaining search engine rankings. If your website structure is too complex, the search engines may not be able to find the pages you want ranked. Fortunately, there exists a sitemap strategy that will provide an open door to search engines for just about any website, ultimately increasing your odds for ranking success. The strategy is to provide a standard sitemap web page as well as a search engine sitemap to glean the benefits of both applications.
Sitemap(s) for website and Search engines
The purpose of a sitemap is to provide visitors with an alternative and perhaps faster method of finding a specific page or section within your website. The secondary purpose is to provide a single page where a search engine can reach every page within your website. Here are some considerations when creating or optimizing your website's sitemap for best results:
- Create an effective sitemap which is accessible from the website.
- Create another tier under each main section list the links from that page to further pages deeper within the section.
- Ensure link to the sitemap from each and every page.
- Create an XML sitemap for the search engines - which should be separate from the sitemap for the website.
A search engine sitemap (meant only for search engines to see) is a tool provided by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN to allow webmasters to suggest how often, and in what order, a search engine should spider each page within their websites.
Having a sitemap is very important as far as SEO is concerned and our team of experts at Hit4SEO are well versed and equipped for creating the sitemaps for you. The search engine sitemap provides you with the knowledge that the search engines know, without a doubt, which pages you want them to add to their databases, how often, and in what order - a most comforting fact.