What does Site Map ?

Site Map:

sitemap is a file where we provide information about the pages and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines read this file and crawl your site. A sitemap tells the crawler which files have to crawl and which file have high priority in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files: for example, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed, and any alternate language versions of a page

 

Site Map

 

 

How does your Sitemap affect your SEO?

Search engines should see all the pages that you want them to see. The more pages that they index from you, the more trust your site gains.
Making sure the search engine crawler get to crawl all the stuff they need to crawl from your website is the exact purpose of a Sitemap. It’s not for navigation, it’s not for internal linking. It’s for the search engine spiders.
It won’t greatly boost your on-site SEO, but it would definitely help. 

Types Of sitemap

• HTML-Sitemap

An HTML-sitemap is used for the user

• XML-sitemap

It is supposed to be a graphical table-of-contents for the website, which will also help search engines crawl the entire website.


 For those who are not using WordPress, you can use this online XML-Sitemaps generator tool.These is free tool available in market for generating a sitemap.