Does Submitting Xml Map really Helps?

Yes, it makes your page easy to indexed and at the same time for your users to easily navigate certain pages on your website according to category.

It helps in indexing.

When you create new pages, they automatically be listed in xml file thus indexed in search engines.

For those who thinks it helps, care to share the results of your testing on this?

I only bother with them on large dynamic sites; they are waste of space and effort on small sites and static sites. My sites that are small and static get crawled just fine without them and new pages are added to the search engines just fine.

Yeah it is helpful for seo. It is help in indexing. Sitemap are a way for web site owners to help the search engine index pages on their web sites, through the use of an xml Sitemap. Yahoo and Microsoft joined Google in adding support for XML sitemaps not long after, and a set of pages explaining the sitemap protocol was launched.

Yes, it really helps. Search engine crawl need it.

Yes. it help search engine to index your website.crawl indexed your webpages through sitmap file.

Having an XML sitemap is helps search engines to crawl your web-pages deeper, better and faster. A simple website may get indexed in the absence of a sitemap too and it’s just that a sitemap only catalyses the process. Sitemaps are particularly helpful if your site has :-

* Dynamic content.
* Pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process
(for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images.)
* Is new and has few links to it.
(Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
* Your site has a large archive of content pages
(that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.)

so how come the search engines crawlers can crawl and indexe the sites that I don't have xml site maps on just fine?

Sitemaps comes in various formats like ROR, XML, Images and HTML. They are important for better navigation in site.

I believe having a sitemap helps a bit. It is one of those things that Google seems to give you a little credit for. The nice thing about FSB is that it automatically does it for you..and continues to do it for you.

Yes submitting XML sitemap helps in indexing you site's links and it is also recommended by Google. Also users can easily see all the links at one place.

I have to say yes, xml sitemaps help.

Xml sitemaps are very useful for SEO, then again I'm sure I use the xml sitemaps a bit differently than the average webmaster.

Try ranking a self hosted video thumbnail image in Google SERPs without an xml sitemap, good luck waiting all year...

Try ranking a flash page without an xml file/sitemap, won't happen without the xml file/sitemap.

The thing about xml sitemaps is you can pretty much get Google to crawl specific content/URLs without much waiting or guessing. Inside WMT, Google will give you a confirmation (indexed vs not indexed) for xml sitemaps.

I've got another project I'm working on right now that involves xml files & SEO, besides the already proven self hosted videos & flash. This time I'm working on grouping relevant pages/content per individual xml sitemap, not an entire site worth of content per xml file like a typical blog xml sitemap.

I've said this before about xml files/sitemaps, xml files are very similar to web pages. Xml files can have page rank & Google cache.

It's free to build/submit xml sitemaps & get Googles attention, not sure why anyone wouldn't use that to their advantage.

Its ussually quick to do, so why heck not is my motto lol.

XML sitemap is must needed if you want to let search engine robots to see what changes you have made to your site..