Sitemaps Help Search Engines Find Their Way

Webcrawler Sitemap

Sitemaps exist in two places on a website - a formatted hyper-linked page for the general public to use for quick viewing and navigation within a site, and an un-formatted page for the webcrawlers that reach out to scan the content on a website.

Mapping sounds complicated right? Not really. Our web hosting service automatically updates the sitemap for webcrawlers as you edit your website. It dynamically will add, delete, and change the information to keep it current. You should update your site twice a month (minimum) to keep the webcrawlers on your site. This will improve your search engine ranking. You can see to the left that there are date and time stamps on the links to the web pages for www.thinklaird.com. The search engines are very interested in how current your web page information is, and may skip "stale" pages. The automatic update for the sitemap is an important part of the SEO (search engine optimization) provided by our hosting service.

Tap the "Webcrawler Sitemap" image to link out to see the page.

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User Friendly Sitemap Created by BTG

Here is a look at Laird's public sitemap. It provides an easy all-in-one look at their website, like a table of contents in a book. The menu links are positioned in a column, and all are linked to the web page they represent. I place the link in the footer unless there is a need for a more prominent position in the main menu. This decision is made by the owner of the website.

Tap on the image to the right to link out to see the page.

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