Do sitemap's improve search engine position?

What are sitemap's and what do they do?

A sitemap is a detailed map of your website. Many people make the mistake of underestimating the value of a good site map. A good site map is a little gem enabling you to make the most of to enhance your web site's position in search engine listings like Google, Yahoo, MSN Live and many others. The addition of a site map will not instantly bring you thousands of new visitors, but its addition will help both users and search engine robots to navigate your website. By the addition of a "sitemap" you will achieve two things. Firstly you make the users experience within your website much easier. Visitors can experience a visual sitemap that will aid quick navigation, if they already know roughly where they want to go. The other benefit of sitemap's is for the search engines. They can easily index your web site, which means that far more of your pages will be indexed and you will understand how to get a website indexed more frequently.

Why do you need a Sitemap?

 Google, Yahoo and the other search engines will index your site even if you don't have a sitemap, but there are advantages to having one:

  •  Sitemap’s tell the search engines which pages on your site are the most important and which are less important. By knowing this you can ensure that the less important pages do not dilute the effects of the more important pages in the listings.

  •  Site map’s inform the search engines which pages on your site are updated most often. Doing this ensures that the search engines can reduce time indexing static pages, thus increasing the likelihood that they will have the most current data on your most up to date web pages.

  •  Your sitemap gives you the ability to let the search engines know when you have added or updated your web site's content. This puts you in control of telling the search engines when your new content is added.

So, how do you create a sitemap?

Simple, contact the SEO specialists at Webprosolutions, we can provide a sitemap generation service and our various service levels mean that you can choose a package that suits you. The packages range from a fully managed service which includes sitemap generation and submission to just giving you the tool bag to manage your own submissions. For further information contact us by email at: enquiries@webprosolutions.co.uk

Ok, Where to go Now?

Contact us be emailing optimise@webprosolutions.co.uk with full details of your website, target market, keywords and keyphrases for your market place and we would be pleased to provide an individual search engine optimisation quotation for your website.

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