@akicksoftware2Mar 14.2016 — #Sitemaps make navigating your site easier and having an updated sitemap on your site is good both for your users and for search engines.
@ExpertWPMar 17.2016 — #Using sitemaps has many benefits, not only easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Of course, you cannot expect that search engines will rush right away to index your changed pages but certainly the changes will be indexed faster, compared to when you don't have a sitemap.
@LiveChatAdamMar 20.2016 — #Sitemap is a good way of showing Google from what parts your website consists of. This way you are helping search engine to index it the way you want it to be idexed.
@ashfordwebMar 21.2016 — #According to google.. A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
However, using a sitemap doesn't guarantee that all the items in your sitemap will be crawled and indexed, as Google processes rely on complex algorithms to schedule crawling. However, in most cases, your site will benefit from having a sitemap, and you'll never be penalized for having one.
@tctsinc8Mar 21.2016 — #The purpose of a site map is to spell out your Web site's central content themes and to show both search engine spiders. Site map is a list of webpages.
@davidwarner033Mar 24.2016 — #HTML sitemap is one of the most important tactics you can use to distribute your link juice efficiently within your site.
It is an actual page of your website that outlines the complete structure of your site, and that links to all the important pages on your site. HTML sitemaps represent a very efficient way to distribute your link juice among the pages of your site.
@Lou_NeriApr 11.2016 — #Sitemaps usually have two basic roles.
1. HTML Sitemaps: Used to guide your website's visitors through the site, without needing to follow the url chain. Click Here for an Example. As you can see it makes the browsing experience a lot easier for visitors.
2. XML Sitemaps: Used to guide Search Engines through the steps to "read" your website. Once you make a Google Webmaster Tools account, you can specify a sitemap in order to get a specific search view template, which looks like a tree.
So, in a nutshell, sitemaps are pretty important, in both User Browsing Ability and SEO.
@ankitjaswal5044Apr 11.2016 — #site map is a model of a website's content designed to help both users and search engines navigate the site. A site map can be a hierarchical list of pages (with links) organized by topic, an organization chart, or an XML document that provides instructions to search engine crawl bots.