What are the Best Practices of Sitemap in SEO?

What is Sitemap?

As it is clear through name Sitemap is the map of site. It usually shows all the paths and links to the user and search engines. There are two types of Sitemaps lowercase and upper case.

Upper Case Sitemap is a sitemap in .html form in our site pages. This contains all the links of our site in a categorized form for the user to easily access to the desired web page and content.

Lower Case Sitemap is a sitemap in xml for the search engines and crawlers to easily crawl and index all the site links in the search engine.

Some online services can create sitemaps. Xml site is always uploaded in our root directory and submit to Google search engine through webmaster tool. This is design in xml language tags.

There are different sitemaps for different things for example sitemap for videos in separate format created and submitted to the search engines for videos. Similarly images, videos, mobile sites, news and RSS feed sitemaps must be submit separately to the search engines for better crawling and understanding.

Best Practices of creating Sitemap in SEO

1.       Sitemap must not contain 404 or broken links.

2.       Sitemap must contain all the pages of your web which you want to crawl.

3.       Sitemap must be submitted through webmaster tools.

4.       Sitemap must be validated.