What Is A Sitemap? Do I Need One? [Answered]
A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them.
Search Engine Journal contributor Tessa Nadik has published an article explaining sitemaps and when should you use them.
She says, “If you are wondering if you need a sitemap, that depends!
First, let’s discuss the XML sitemap. There are a few questions you can ask to determine if you need an XML sitemap:
- How big is your site? Is it large enough that Google may miss newly updated content when it is crawling?
- Is your site relatively new? If so, it may not have a ton of external links on the Internet that point to it to help Google discover it. Even if your site isn’t new, and you don’t have external links, your answer to this question should be yes.
- Is your site content heavy? Do you have many photos, videos, news content, etc.?
- Does your site need a better architecture that results in pages not being well linked to each other? This can also be the case with archived and orphan pages you want to be indexed.”
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