The grandness of a Sitemap

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that's 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'll 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're, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2) Conveying your site's theme

When your visitors load up your sitemap, they'll get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There's no need to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you'll be saving your visitors' time.

3) Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you're 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'll 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'll be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you'll have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it's most crucial to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you'll be able to keep your website easily accesible and neatly organized for everyone.

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