What is a Sitemap?
submitted by markodonoghue on 09 October 2009
A sitemap is a representation (normally a hierarchical list) of the architecture of a website. The sitemap should be structured, and provide a link to pages listed.
What is the purpose of a sitemap?
A sitemap has two purposes. The origins of a sitemap was to make all content of a website accessible in one place. Before the use of a search facility within a website, the sitemap was a way of finding content when you could not find it on a particular page.
More recently, sitemaps have been reborn with the function in assisting with Search Engine Optimisation. In order to rank and display your website's pages in search results, search engines such as Google need to first index all of your pages...
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Mark O'Donoghue
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