{"id":97,"date":"2009-03-26T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2021-09-07T04:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:47:43","slug":"importance-of-a-site-map-in-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/importance-of-a-site-map-in-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of a Site Map in a Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Site map is basically a catalog that includes all sections of a website. In most of the time, small descriptions of every section is also inserted in a site map. This makes the visitors&#8217; search easier and help them to find their needed information within a fraction of second. It is also seen that a site map can raise a site&#8217;s position in the search systems.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Important Elements in a Site Map<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the important elements that a site map should contain are mentioned below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A site map is considered to be a standard navigation panel, where, links of all other pages are inserted. In the true sense, an effective site map makes all the pages of a website accessible to the online visitors.<\/li>\n<li>It is seen that in most of the time, a good site map lead to site nodes and give a site higher priority while searching the system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Site Map Making Tips<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the tips, following which, a site map can be designed are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The site map should go with your website design.<\/li>\n<li>There is no need to insert graphic elements in a site map. Ideally, a site map should look similar in all the web browsers.<\/li>\n<li>It is desirable that the structure of a site map should have a correlation with the hierarchy of a website itself. While structuring a site map, the designer can always insert lists and headers. However, using tables should be avoided.<\/li>\n<li>It is always better to include the site map&#8217;s link on the first or main page of your website. This allows the readers to access the site map as and when required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus by keeping all those points in mind, the the web designers can structure an effective site map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site map is basically a catalog that includes all sections of a website. In most of the time, small descriptions of every section is also inserted in a site map. This makes the visitors&#8217; search easier and help them to find their needed information within a fraction of second. It is also seen that a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/importance-of-a-site-map-in-a-website\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Importance of a Site Map in a Website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1926,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12007,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}