Sitemaps are designed to provide Search Engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing with a list of a website's pages for them to add to their search results. The most recommended format is the Google-developed XML Sitemap. An XML Sitemap is basically a list of your site's pages that can be submitted directly to the Search Engines, speeding up the indexing of your website.
Regularly updating and submitting an XML Sitemap is highly recommended... by Google themselves.
Spiders (website crawling programs) normally discover the pages of your site through inbound links from other sites as well as links from within your site. A XML Sitemap provides the Search Engines with a ready-made list of your site's pages, allowing them to spend more time actually indexing your site.
Once you have submitted an XML Sitemap, Google, Yahoo!, Bing and others will crawl and index your website. Most website owners see a change in page ranking within days.
How do I create an XML site map?
Through our partnership with Attracta, the world's most popular SEO service, you can create and submit a properly-formatted XML Sitemap directly to Google, Yahoo! and Bing with a single click. Free! You can find this and other SEO Tools within your cPanel, under the "Free Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools" section. Simply click one of the icons to get started!