Saturday 2 August 2008

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Sitemaps

A Sitemap is a map of your website with all your pages. A site map is helpful for people to navigate to a specific page within your website. Further it is an important tool for spiders crawling and indexing your website.
There are two types of Sitemaps, HTML and XML. HTML Sitemaps are for your customers, to navigate through your website. XML sitemaps helps the search engines to crawl your site and get the best possible rankings you can by letting the search engine see your website.
Every time you update your website, your Sitemap will be updated. The search engines will identify new content and it is an important factor to improve you page rank. Sitemaps are supported by most of the search engines.