Help the spiders find their way with a site map

Many SEOs will tell you that a site map is important. You may be asking yourself, “Why? People never use sitemaps to navigate, and the spiders will naturally crawl all of my site anyway”. That is true, over time all your pages will be indexed. And people don’t want to read through a list of links to find a page they want (they’d rather use a search box). But what matters is WHEN your will be indexed. If your pages get indexed faster, they get more exposure sooner and the sooner you start making money. And this is exactly where site maps help.

Creating a sitemap is simple. First, make a plain, normal page, except you put “site map” as the meta tag. Then, add links to each main page of your site. Under each main page link, add links to subpages, then under the subpages, add the pages under it. Continue in this fashion until you have something that look like this:

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