Do you really need sitemaps?

There are two types of sitemaps, one is an HTML sitemap that lists the pages of your site and is meant to help users find the information they need. The other is an XML Sitemaps and is a way for you to give the search engines information about your site.

An XML Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a XML Sitemap helps make sure that the search engines know about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be have been discovered during the normal crawling process.

XML Sitemaps are very helpful if your site has dynamic content, it has pages that aren’t easily discovered during the crawling process, your site is new and has little to no links to it, or your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other.

An XML Sitemap also provides additional information about your pages, including: how often your pages on the site change, the date each was modified, and the relative importance of the pages on your site.

So to answer the question “Do you really need sitemaps?” Yes XML Sitemaps play a very important role in the organic search engine optimization process and HTML sitemaps assist the user in navigating your site.