The Importance of Sitemaps

User-Experience, Credibility and Administrator Collaboration

Many website owners have an idea of what a sitemap is, but they don't necessarily understand how imperative a sitemap is for the success of their website, ensuring that the site is both search-friendly and user-friendly. With that said, it's apparent that sitemaps can be useful in a variety of ways. First off, sitemaps are a protocol that allows the webmaster for a website to inform Google and other major search engines about the URL's on a website that are available for crawling. They are also an important step of the user-centered process, ensuring that website content is in places users would expect to find it.

If you are like many website owners, you've worked extremely hard on your SEO to make sure that your site ranks—and ranks well—in the search engines. Maybe you spent hundreds of man hours on SEO efforts or even hundreds of dollars on a professional SEO agency to provide you with exceptional results. With that said, when it comes time to redesign your website the last thing you want is for all of your hard work to be affected negatively.

Throughout this article we are going to talk about the importance of content inventories and content audits, especially when it comes to the success of your website as a whole, its maintenance and overall management.

It’s not uncommon for new (and quite often established) website owners to forget all about content inventories and how valuable they can be, particularly when it comes to the success of a website.

Regardless of how old or new your website is, if you have inherited the site or you are ready to migrate your website from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, a website audit is imperative to the success of your website and business. A site audit will help you learn the ins and outs of your website, what content is on the site, how it’s structured and frankly, if the content you do have is working in your favor (i.e. doing what it’s supposed to; convert!).

It is the desire of every webmaster to own a website that can meet their needs, serve and engage his/her visitors. Every webmaster has to develop a positive stance towards competition which many people dread. Competition should be given the right perspective and proper interpretation as you should learn from it in order to improve on personal services and products. Content auditing is aimed at auditing your website as a defense against competitors. It helps you to examine the effectiveness of your contents as well as bridging any technical flaws and gaps.