A sitemap is often considered
redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if
you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance
of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own
sitemap to suit your own needs.
1) Navigation purposes
A sitemap literally acts as a
map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the
thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see
where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.
2) Conveying your site's theme
When your visitors load up your
sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of
time. There is no need to get the "big picture" of your site by
reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors'
time.
3) Site optimization purposes
When you create a sitemap, you
are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page
on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page --
they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of
your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a
link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your
website.
4) Organization and relevance
A sitemap enables you to have a
complete bird's eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add
new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy
into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have
a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.
From the above reasons, it is
most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable
size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accesible
and neatly organized for everyone.
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