Why sitemap.xml is used in SEO?

[linda1909]

Sitemaps standard or protocol provide a basic communication link or channel between the search engines spider/crawler and the websites sitemap. Before the protocol html sitemaps were used and are not upto the mark as far as performance was concerned. Theoretically search engines need to use less processing power as they have the overview of the site available with them and can help to find them all the urls of a website with ease and risk of leaving the site before it is crawled wholely is reduced.

[brknny]

Xml sitemap is a quick reference of website for search engine crawlers.XML sitemaps serve as a way to communicate directly with the search engines, alerting them to new or changed content very quickly and helping to ensure that the content is indexed faster.

[Steve smith]

An XML Sitemap helps search engine bots to index your website more faster and in a more better and ordered way. It ensures that the spiders can easily reach all parts of your website and indexes your pages quickly.

Think of it as the roadmap through your site. Make sure you have one of these, it's a very important part of SEO.

[CreativeDreamrz]

Once you are done creating your site map, it is recommended that you submit it to Google webmasters tool so that Google can crawl your sitemaps.The process helps to index your webpages faster in search engines.