Question about Site Maps...

[mlehman]

Hi,

Question: Do I need to have a "Site Map" page in my main navigation menu for SEO purposes? ... I notice that Yaro's "Entrepreneurs-Journey.com" site does not have one -- so should I?

Thanks,
mlehman

[Blaine Moore]

Yaro has an XML sitemap registered with Google & Yahoo that the search engines can use, and I definitely recommend setting that up (You can get a plugin for it here: WordPress › Google XML Sitemaps « WordPress Plugins )

As for a sitemap for users - I don't know how useful that really is. Most people just search. For my main site, I have 2 sitemaps, one by category and one by date. Both are very large pages. I haven't checked to see how much traffic they get but I doubt its much.

[Litgen]

It is better to have site maps than not ot have. Don't know exactly how it benfits for google, but better use it

[tyroneshum]

What I can share you about this is that simply by creating a sitemap that tells Google to crawl your website will enhance the chances of listing higher in Google searches, that's what Google Sitemaps do. Try to check more how it helps.

[zyke]

Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found.

[baldhair]

if you resubmit your xml sitemap to google through your account every time you update it by adding a new page you improve your chances of having the new page indexed quickly by google. i do not think it will help you with SERPs but it will speed up the recognition process

[tmarek]

Originally Posted by Blaine Moore

Yaro has an XML sitemap registered with Google & Yahoo that the search engines can use, and I definitely recommend setting that up (You can get a plugin for it here: WordPress › Google XML Sitemaps « WordPress Plugins )

As for a sitemap for users - I don't know how useful that really is. Most people just search. For my main site, I have 2 sitemaps, one by category and one by date. Both are very large pages. I haven't checked to see how much traffic they get but I doubt its much.

Yup, and that is exactly the same thing I do on my blog. It definitely streamlines the process of sending things to Google as the xml sitemap is automatically updated for them and pings them to boot.