An Introduction To Sitemaps

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An Introduction To Site Maps
Presented By, Bruce Ismail, Bangalore SEO Company
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What Are Sitemaps?

• A sitemap is an overview of the pages within a
  website.
• A sitemap is a diagrammatical representation of
  the logical structure of a set of WebPages.
• It is more than a hierarchical collection of
  pages.
• An XML sitemap is a document that helps Google
  and other major search engines have a better
  understanding of your website while crawling it.
• The sitemap is a collection of URLs, image
  sources, videos, etc. which can describe website
  resources uniquely.
• Sitemap help to visualize structure of website
  and make navigation much easier for inner page.

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Two Kinds Of Sitemaps

• Human Sitemap A human sitemap is a simple HTML
  webpage that lists all the pages on your site.
  Its meant to be read by a human being.
• Search Engine Sitemap A Google sitemap/XML
  sitemap is meant for search engines only.
• Note A sitemap index file can only specify
  sitemaps that are found on the same site as the
  sitemap index file.
• If you don't how to create a sitemap, consider
  approaching one of the best SEO company in
  Bangalore.

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Sitemap File Location

• A website can have more than one sitemap. By
  default, most web crawlers search for a
  sitemap.xml file in the root.
• But sitemaps can be located anywhere.
• Although the recommended practice is to put them
  all in the root.

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Web Crawler And Sitemap

• Web crawler
• A search engine computer searching for content on
  the Internet for later indexation.
• They read robots.txt and sitemap.xml files found
  on websites.
• Sitemap.xml
• Text files listing pages URLs to help web
  crawlers find content on a website.

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Benefits Of Sitemap

• No page would be left unturned
• Easier navigation for website guests
• Potential marketing value
• Encourage higher targeted traffic for your web
  page
• Boost the search engine rankings of your website.
• It also helps with getting all of your pages
  indexed, even if theyre obscure.

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Conclusion

• Creating and submitting a sitemap only takes a
  few minutes to do and if you havent already done
  it, you can approach one of the top SEO Company
  in Bangalore.
• Its probably one of the most productive things
  you can do to help your website get more traffic.

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Thanks!

• Any questions?