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A site map is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is, in effect, whether it made a site map for the sake of having one. In stressing the importance of having a well constructed site map, you can design your own map navigation to meet their own needs.

Navigation purposes: A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

Conveying the theme of your site: When you have visitors to your plan charge, they will receive the bulk of your site in a very short period of time. It is not necessary to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through every page, and by doing that you are going to save your visitors.

Site optimization purposes: When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page — they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

Organization and relevance: A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird’s eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it is very important to initiate a site map for the site with projects of a substantial size. Through this course, you will be able to keep your site easily accessible and well organized for all.

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