I started my own website and when I research about SEO on Google, many are suggesting to keep a site map. how are sitemaps important for the seo process?
Are sitemaps mandatory for website growth in SEO? How important are the use of site maps when creating a website.
Aniya
Yes sitemaps are really really important for the SEO process and for the SEO rankings on the search engine results.
Sitemap are key which tells about the structure of your website to the search engines. But even if you don’t have a sitemap still the search engines will crawl your site and will index your site.
But keeping a sitemap and then keeping the sitemap on the Google search console for example, will make your web pages scroll a bit faster and not excluding any important pages.
Just install any SEO plugin like SEO yoast, rank math SEO. They will automatically create site maps, a sitemap will look something like sitemap.
A website has one or more sitemaps.
Once the sitemap is created from your SEO plugin, you need to take the URL (https://techanswered.com/question-sitemap2.xml) you need to submit this URL in the Google search console.
As you observe in the above made you need to sign into Google search console and in the options will find an option called sitemaps.
Once you click on sitemaps you will see this page, you need to enter the copied sitemap address and add it here.
How to create sitemap for website.