Is your site mapped?
What are Sitemaps?
1. A Sitemap is a web page that provides an organised list of all the pages on a given site. The reason for doing this is making user navigation as easy as possible. Sites with many pages can sometimes be almost maze like in nature, with different routes available to get to any given page. A Sitemap counters this by providing a simple and hierarchical index of an entire website that can be used to find pages “deeper” within a site.
2.The second type of Sitemap is an XML Sitemap. This is a very important part of having your website rank high in the search engines, as it creates a concise index of all your pages in a format that is easily understandable by the search engine spiders(software robots that discover and index web pages). The more efficiently your site is crawled, the more benefit you will get each time it happens.
The WordPress software I use has the ability to create both types of Sitemap at a high level. This means that neither the spiders or potential customers will have any trouble discovering all of the pages on your site. Both of Web Design Wolverhampton’s own Sitemaps can be found by clicking the orange button in the bottom right corner of the homepage, view these for an example of how they will look on your own site.
