The sitemap usually comes with graphical representation of the structure of your website. Sitemap, it’s a GUI presentation of the structure of your website. It shows you the page that linked each other in your site or blog.

There are several ways to create the sitemap for your blog but the easiest way with using plug-in. If you are using wordpress blog then it’s will be easy with install some plug-in in wp-content\plugin folder.

Step 1 : Download Google XML Site Map Here and install it.

Step 2 : After the installation go to Options> Google XML Sitemap

Step 3 : Accessing your new site map by surfing http://yourdomain.com /sitemap.xml

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This XML sitemap, very compatible with Google since Google and Yahoo accept the XML site map. You can reach Run Awayz Site Map with this link. So what is a sitemap? With sitemap the web master can inform search engine about their web is available for crawling. Web crawlers will do a better job crawling at your site if you embed the sitemap in your site or blog. Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

Sitemap also act like table of content that will let your visitors know if you have the information that he/she needs. Link will be showing at once and let your visitor find some specific info that he/she looking to.

So, what the benefits of a sitemap?

1. You can use a SiteMap as a planing tool for web design.

By using a sitemap your website will have a good structure and you can plan it where to put the page.Your site will not become a hodgepodge of pages without any relation to one another.

2. No page will be left unvisited.

The search engine bot or spider will visit your entire page and no page will be left unvisited since you force them to come by using Google Analytics and visit by sitemap.Your ranking also increase.

3. Visitors will have an easier time to navigate your site.

Visitor can stay at the site for a while but get the maximum info from your blog or site. Since the visitor easy and suitable with your sitemap of course it will make the navigation process easier.

4. A SiteMap may encourage more traffic.

Using the Google XML sitemaps it auto update so leave it and it will take care the rest for you. You can increase the traffic by putting the sitemap link into Google Admin tools

Also you will need to know something about Google Analytics.

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