Sitemaps & Google

Snowflame · 03-17-2011, 09:00 AM

I own a website which is marketed by another company. It is a new site ( approx 3 weeks old ) and I am keen to get the site optimized ASAP. I have suggested to them ( the company who manage/market the website ) to incorporate a Sitemap which I have created. However they inform me that:

"most search engines(including Google) use spiders to retrieve site pages and as we link all pages via navigation buttons I don't really see the point in a site map page"

Are they right?

John Williamson · 03-17-2011, 09:31 AM

You're pages will most likely get crawled and indexed if you have a good internal linking structure, but obviously it never hurts to submit a sitemap.

Stromraider · 03-17-2011, 09:38 AM

Sitemap will help robot ( like from google , bing , and yahoo ) to crawl our site . sitemap like a guides for google and others robots when visiting our site . it very important for keeping our site visited by google

Brian Lett · 03-17-2011, 09:39 AM

While they may be right, submitting a sitemap will remove any doubt that the search engines are aware of all of the pages on your website. In other words, I highly recommend that you encourage them to submit a sitemap for your website. Only positive result can come about from doing this.

Sitemapper · 03-17-2011, 01:31 PM

You may also look into creating a HTML sitemap that highlights all important sections and then link that from all places.

Brian Alaway · 03-17-2011, 03:11 PM

Sitemaps are not just for SEs, they're for users too.
If this is a WordPress site, check out Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
Among the features is the option to automatically notify Ask.com, Google, Bing and YAHOO about changes via ping.
If sitemaps were not important then why would Google include them in the webmaster tools?

03-17-2011, 09:00 AM	#1
Snowflame Warrior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Sitemaps & Google I own a website which is marketed by another company. It is a new site ( approx 3 weeks old ) and I am keen to get the site optimized ASAP. I have suggested to them ( the company who manage/market the website ) to incorporate a Sitemap which I have created. However they inform me that: "most search engines(including Google) use spiders to retrieve site pages and as we link all pages via navigation buttons I don't really see the point in a site map page" Are they right?

03-17-2011, 09:31 AM	#2
John Williamson The Mathematical Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Charleston, SC Posts: 1,639 Thanks: 143 Thanked 283 Times in 185 Posts	Re: Sitemaps & Google You're pages will most likely get crawled and indexed if you have a good internal linking structure, but obviously it never hurts to submit a sitemap.
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03-17-2011, 09:38 AM	#3
Stromraider Warrior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Sitemaps & Google Sitemap will help robot ( like from google , bing , and yahoo ) to crawl our site . sitemap like a guides for google and others robots when visiting our site . it very important for keeping our site visited by google

03-17-2011, 09:39 AM	#4
Brian Lett SEMwhiz has released! War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Posts: 168 Thanks: 27 Thanked 41 Times in 33 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Sitemaps & Google While they may be right, submitting a sitemap will remove any doubt that the search engines are aware of all of the pages on your website. In other words, I highly recommend that you encourage them to submit a sitemap for your website. Only positive result can come about from doing this.

03-17-2011, 01:31 PM	#5
Sitemapper Programmer War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 158 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts Social Networking	Re: Sitemaps & Google You may also look into creating a HTML sitemap that highlights all important sections and then link that from all places.
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03-17-2011, 03:11 PM	#6
Brian Alaway Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florida, USA. Posts: 589 Thanks: 34 Thanked 124 Times in 108 Posts Social Networking	Re: Sitemaps & Google Sitemaps are not just for SEs, they're for users too. If this is a WordPress site, check out Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress Among the features is the option to automatically notify Ask.com, Google, Bing and YAHOO about changes via ping. If sitemaps were not important then why would Google include them in the webmaster tools?