Often, new website builders and owners tend to forget the importance of site necessities like a simple sitemap.
A Sitemap is often seen as pointless since it is just replicating the links already on the website.
However, if you construct a good sitemap that highlights the important sections of your site then you can customize it to match your own needs.
At the very least you should be using Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools to keep track of your site's visitors.
You should submit your sitemap to Webmaster Tools and make sure you install the correct robot.
txt file to allow Google to crawl your site and index it.
Many site owners out there today, including some big hitters, use WordPress Blogs.
To generate a sitemap in WordPress the easiest way is to install the Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator For WordPress plug-in.
You can set the plugin up to automatically rebuild your sitemap every time you post a new blog to your site, it also informs Google, Yahoo, Ask and Bing that you have added a page to your site, and you have to do nothing! Here are some other reasons why you need a good sitemap: 1) Sitemaps are important for navigation purposes.
When your visitors have gone astray and got stuck deep down in the pages of your site, they can check your sitemap for reference and can navigate your site more easily.
2) Sitemaps can give a glimpse of your site's main topics.
Just by looking through your sitemap, your visitors will already know the content and theme of your site and so they do not have to read each page.
3) Sitemaps can promote search engine optimization.
Because a sitemap lists the links of all the pages you want it to, the pages will be indexed by search engines when the search engine robots crawl your sitemap page.
4) Sitemaps can also organize the structure of your site.
When you want to revise your site's content or add a new section, then you can just glance at your sitemap to review the hierarchy of your links based on their relevance.
Large websites definitely need to have sitemaps so that the sites' links will be organized in a well ordered state and everyone will be able to access it easily.
But small sites need a sitemap as well, add one to your site when you first put it up and it will be easy to add to as it grows.