Sitemaps are not only used by the visitors to easily navigate a website, search engines like Google and Yahoo also uses them! How? To make the work of search engine spiders or crawlers easy sitemaps are used as guide to know the pages to be crawled. Nowadays sitemaps are used in all websites to increase the visibility of the web pages to visitors as well as to search engines by listing all web pages.
To decide on the need of a sitemap page in your website is up to you. If don’t want your website to be visible, well can avoid having a sitemap page. Otherwise sitemap is mandatory for any website that is expected to be better indexed by search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Check if your website has a sitemap already, if not simply log on to Sitemapxml.net to create a sitemap for your website instantly just by entering the complete URL of the website that needs a sitemap. But the only pre-condition is that the user needs to get registered with Sitemapxml.net, as of now without any cost to use the service. The sitemaps can be generated in the required format out of XML, ROR, and Text. Choose the format required and the sitemap is ready to use within a minute or rather seconds. Obviously, it depends on the number of pages your website has. There is also a maximum limit of web pages to be included in a sitemap which is set to be up to 1000 pages.
Now start submitting the URL of the sitemap page with Google and Yahoo to get more visitors and also get better placed in SERP (Search Engine Result Pages).
