The Importance of a Sitemap for Your Home Based Business Website
by Patricia Lemieux-Lewis
A sitemap, although often considered redundant in the process of building a home based business website, is in fact a complete set of highlights on your website. Having a well constructed sitemap will enable both the webmaster and the visitor to browse the website with ease.
Why a sitemap is important for your home based business:
- For ease of navigation--A sitemap literally is a snapshot map of your site. If visitors browsing your site get lost between the thousands of pages on your home based business website, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages without frustration.
- To convey your website theme--Your sitemap tells all visitors the "gist" of your home based business website within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the "big picture" of your website by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.
- For website optimization--When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your home based business website. When search engine robots hit this page they crawl every link on the sitemap and every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website.
- For organization & relevance--A sitemap enables you to have a complete "bird's eye view" of your home based business website structure. When you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized website with everything sorted according to their relevance.
For the above reasons, it is important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your home based business website easily accessible and neatly organized for everyone.
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