- When should you create a sitemap?
- How does a sitemap work?
- When should you submit your sitemap to Google?
When should you create a sitemap?
If your site pages don't naturally reference each other, you can list them in a sitemap to ensure that Google doesn't overlook some of your pages. Your site is new and has few external links to it. Googlebot and other web crawlers crawl the web by following links from one page to another.
How does a sitemap work?
A sitemap is a blueprint of your website that help search engines find, crawl and index all of your website's content. Sitemaps also tell search engines which pages on your site are most important.
When should you submit your sitemap to Google?
You should re-submit your sitemap or add another sitemap when you change the structure of your website, change or just update your content or type of content or have some new content to show.