Sitemaps and XML Sitemaps

Using a site map not only makes it easy for your users to see the entire structure of your website but it also makes it easier for the search engines to “spider” your website. When the search engine spiders come to visit they will follow all of the text links from your main index page. If one of those links is to a site map then the spiders will go right to the sitemap and consequently visit every page you have text linked to from that site map. On the site map page try to have a sentence or two describing each page and not just a page of links.

There are two different kinds of sitemaps and the kind of which I am speaking here is a static site map that is visible to your site users and not an XML sitemap (although that's well worth having too).