How to Create a Sitemap?

Today our topic is how to design a sitemap.  Do not confuse with XML Sitemap.

What is a sitemap?
Sitemap is a page of your website that outlines your entire website.  It has the same hierarchy of structure as your website.
For example, Adamson’s Photo Studio website has the following pages:

• home

• social gallery

• corporate gallery

• about us

• contact us

In order, to build a sitemap for Adamson’s Photo Studio website, a webmaster has to:

• create a new page

• name it as a sitemap.html

• place the list of pages (look above) onto sitemap.html

• write a short description of every page below name of page

• make a link between name of page and actual page, thus a user can go to desired page from sitemap page in one click

Do not forget to place categories and subcategories of each page on the sitemap.html, if such exist.

Why do you need a sitemap page?
There are a few benefits to have a sitemap page on your website:

• visitors of your site are more likely to find what they are looking for and do not get lost within the website

• crawling your sitemap page search engines can quickly find recently added or updated pages on your website

Hence, designing a sitemap is very beneficial for your website search engine optimization. Furthermore, a friendly-user interface will attract more visitors to your website.

You can generate your HTML sitemap using Free Online Sitemap Generator located at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com

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