Sitemap for SEO

[darnoc92]

Hey Warriors,

I'm having trouble figuring out sitemaps. I have created a sitemap.xml file, posted it correctly and submitted it to google but have noticed many sites also have an actual page that is a 'visual' sitemap and I know it's an essential part for SEO. Not sure if that makes sense....

Could anyone recommend any quality free sites or provide a quick tutorial on how to properly install a correct sitemap?

Thanks in advance!

Conrad

[Scott Henderson]

XML and HTML (visual as you put it) sitemaps are 2 different files. To create the site map, the HTML one, that a visitor would see on a page you would simply create a page and it has all of the links to the pages on your site, just like you make a link to any other page/site in HTML with the appropriate anchor text.

[seohut868686]

I used Wp. it have plugin for sitemap. Great

[servermonitoring]

Originally Posted by darnoc92

Hey Warriors,

I'm having trouble figuring out sitemaps. I have created a sitemap.xml file, posted it correctly and submitted it to google but have noticed many sites also have an actual page that is a 'visual' sitemap and I know it's an essential part for SEO. Not sure if that makes sense....

Could anyone recommend any quality free sites or provide a quick tutorial on how to properly install a correct sitemap?

Thanks in advance!

Conrad

Both Sitemap important XML for search engine and HTML for visitors hope you know got an idea

[nicktyler]

You have done the right thing for the xml sitemap. The "visual2 sitemap is easy. Just list the navigation structure of your site in the form of links on a page and put a link to that page inthe site footer.

Like this

[rasel786]

I think if you want to generate sitemap.xml file you can use google webmaster tool. You can also follow the SEO TIPS.

[sureshtechendeavour]

The tutorial given by rasel786 is really helpful. I am also using xml-sitemaps.com

[goldy25]

I'm using google sitemap pluging for my wordpress blog and for visual sitemap, I am adding links manually.

[MikeFriedman]

To be honest, unless you have a website with hundreds or thousands of pages, there really is not need for a sitemap. The spiders should have no trouble crawling your website without one, well, unless your linking and structure absolutely sucks. In that case, you still don't need a sitemap. You need to fix your site.

[nirvanax]

Originally Posted by goldy25

I'm using google sitemap pluging for my wordpress blog and for visual sitemap, I am adding links manually.

i same. it's work!

[rajivkumar900]

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

To be honest, unless you have a website with hundreds or thousands of pages, there really is not need for a sitemap. The spiders should have no trouble crawling your website without one, well, unless your linking and structure absolutely sucks. In that case, you still don't need a sitemap. You need to fix your site.

Thanks for your opinion mike, but what if we have website more than 200,000
pages, i have several sites like this and face problem at certain point my google xml site map crash due to memory issue, do you have solution to build sitemap for this much big site?
please share.
Rajiv

[MikeFriedman]

Is the site on Wordpress like someone mentioned above? If it is, the plugin suggested will do it easily.

[Sitemapper]

Making a visual HTML/CSS sitemap for such a large website is not really practical (although you can, e.g. A1SG links generated sitemap pages at bottom)

200.000 pages for an XML sitemap is not necessarily a problem either although it is a very large website and you may be pushing the limits of many different tools depending on if they are plugins or crawlers. (At least close on the limits if you don't take the time to configure the sitemap tool and/or webserver specificly for large websites.)

[darnoc92]

Thanks for the responses and I will get back to you with some details.

Best regards!

[dofollow]

A site can have two sitemaps.One is the XML sitemap that is for the search engine navigation of your site and the other is the html sitemap for the human users so that they too can easily navigate to all the important pages of the site. It can reduce the searching process and time for the user.

[rosesmark]

My website CMS is WordPress so, I using sitemap plugin and All in SEO pack

[John Conner]

Both sitemap.xml and sitemap.html are very useful

1). sitemap.xml navigate the search engines.
2). sitemap.html or sitemap.php navigate the visitors

[seobyindia]

It seems to me that the most common SEO misconception that occurs is the one regarding the sitemap. I often see discussions on business .

[Jamie Lin]

You shouldn't create your own sitemap from scratch, if you are using Wordpress you can use Google XML Sitemap to generate the sitemap (which usually located on yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml). Then the sitemap can be used on Google Webmaster Tool.

[speedbird]

Originally Posted by darnoc92

Hey Warriors,

I'm having trouble figuring out sitemaps. I have created a sitemap.xml file, posted it correctly and submitted it to google but have noticed many sites also have an actual page that is a 'visual' sitemap and I know it's an essential part for SEO. Not sure if that makes sense....

Could anyone recommend any quality free sites or provide a quick tutorial on how to properly install a correct sitemap?

Thanks in advance!

Conrad

A visual sitemap makes sense when your website has many pages and a lot of content. This is always created to help users navigate easily within your site.