Search Engine Optimization

Whether your site have 10 or even 100 pages, you have to make sure that all your pages are indexed, it is your SEO goal after all right and the best way to ensure tha the spider will crawl all these pages is to have a site map. Because sometime, search engine can have troubles finding links that are buried within your site’s structure.

What is a site map?

A site map is a page that display every section of your website, think of it like a book’s table of content. You could use pictures, diagram or even an image to display your section but since your are reading our SEO blog.. which confirm that you are looking for the best tip and advice:

1. FORGET the pictures and so on and go with plain text.
   
2. Make sure that you use keyword when you descripe your pages.
   
3. Each location have to be an active link.
   
4. Your site map have to be linked from your home page. 

First, having the site map on your home page will push the search engine to look at every pages of your site which is of course a very good thing. Imagine: all your pages will be indexed by the spider and once in the search engine database, it will make your site more likely to come up in the search engine result.

Second, have you ever navigat through a site and then.. before you know it you realize that you are just lost…what do you do then?? You head back and look for another web site right? With a site map, your visitors won’t run away anymore unless your site is very boring and that my friend.. we can’t really help you with No seriously, details each section and sub sections of your site with descriptive text will make it easier for your visitors.

And please, do not forget to update! If you make changes on your site, you should update your site map as well