Importance and Benefits of using Google Sitemaps
Sitemaps is one of the best discoveries introduced by Google and is now even adopted with Yahoo. Basically sitemaps is a well structured map of your site that is each individual URL and its priority for the website.
The priority is very nice to be set up carefully and therefore put larger value to the main page www.domain.com/ and less value on the pages that are not going to change after their creation, because the higher this value is, the highest priority in their list this URL will have and will be the first indexed for a deep crawl
On the other hand the Update rate value is really worthless thing because most search engine do not obey it and that‘s a well known fact. Search engines will visit your url only if they found a page in track your link to that page and in most cases they will only index the page that is linked. During the deep crawl which is done once a month, then the whole page with all the URLs will be indexed. Because Google will index few URLs, then will take a break and come back again until the whole website is indexed.
And take note that the important part of the sitemaps is that you have to add it on the Google Webmasters Center and verify your website in order to get the maximum benefits out of it. If you‘re using WordPress or SEO Website CMS they will automatically ping/request Google to get the sitemaps file, but if you are not using those CMSes that has to be done manually – go to the Google sitemaps and click UPDATE.
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