Applications of Sitemaps
A site or website is a computer which has been connected to the internet and preserves pages on the World Wide Web. Today, sites facilitate researching, searching for employment opportunities, socializing, good health and entertainment to mention just a few. In order to access a website, a person is required to have an internet enabled device, a browser, a telephone line or modem and an Internet Service Provider. New business entities have websites. This enables a customer to research the goods and services a business offers. Sites are of different sizes. A protocol that allows webmasters to avail links to different websites on the search engines is called a sitemap. The following are the importance of sitemap.
Sitemaps allow a webmaster to inform the search engines about changes that have been done on a website. A webmaster is a person who maintains web pages. A sitemap enables the webmaster to post changes he/she has done on a website on the search engines. This facilitates updating the information about a business, company or other entities on search engines.
Sitemaps ease the process of switching between pages on a large website. By use of sitemaps, a webmaster is rendered capable of uploading links to all the web pages to the search engines. A surfer will find the links to different pages on a website hence he/she will easily visit this pages.
Sitemaps makes a website more user-friendly. Surfers are able to visit different web pages using the links on search engines within a short time. By availing all the links on the search engines, sitemaps ease and speeds the process of visiting different webpages, therefore, cutting down on charges and time spent.
Sitemaps are suitable for companies with new sites. Sitemaps are crucial for the success of companies and people with new websites. Sitemaps facilitate the posting of the links of the new website by the webmaster on the search engines. Surfers will, therefore, have an easy time while locating the links to the new website. Surfers are also able to easily detect changes on the most visited sites.
Sitemaps are suitable for rich text sites which search engines are unable to process. Search engine rarely process pages made using Silverlight, Ajax or have Flash content. A webmaster uses sitemaps to avail the links of such websites on the search engines.
Finally, there are two ways used in designing sitemaps. The methods are the use of a visual sitemap generator and use of an online sitemap generator. A webmaster downloads a software and applications or visits a generator’s website respectively.