With the millions and millions of websites in existence today, how do you get yours noticed? The most common way is for it to be high up in the ankings of useful and relevant websites.
How I Got My Site Into Google
Google calls Sitemaps ?an experiment in web crawling?. In general, you place a sitemap on to your web server.
How to Make a Sitemap For Your Website In Five Steps.
A website’s sitemap can be compared to the table of contents of a book. The sitemap is important because it guides visitors to the parts of the website in which they are interested. The sitemap allows surfers to reach their destination without wasting time.
Sitemaps are also important from the point of view of search engines. If the search engine finds a sitemap it is much more likley that your page will be fully visited (spidered) and indexed; allowing web surfers to find your pages.
Creating Sitemaps For Google, MSN AND Yahoo! – The Easy Way
creating sitemaps for your site
Google Sitemaps? useful SEO Tools
One of the most useful utilities that the engineers and think tank at Google have ever devised is the Google Sitemaps program.