A website’s sitemap is usually found at the bottom of the home page, as you can see in the screen shot of the bottom of People.com. The sitemap is a page that contains links to every single page on a website. This does wonders for the indexing of pages on the site. Whenever a search engine robot finds the sitemap, it will follow the links and index every page of your site.
Having a sitemap is beneficial for a number of reasons besides the easier indexing of your site. A sitemap makes it easy for visitors to navigate the site, gets across the site’s general theme, and helps you, the webmaster stay on top of how your site is organized so that when you add new pages you can place them optimally within the sitemap, or else modify the sitemap to accommodate the new pages.
Some blog hosts, like Google’s Blogger, automatically create a sitemap for blogs started there. For other websites, there are a number of free online web tools that help you create a sitemap. One is http://tools.lilengine.com/sitemap-builder/, and another is http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp. If your website doesn’t have a sitemap, then you should make one and submit it to the major search engines. It will improve your site’s quality and rankings by helping bots and humans find their way around your site more easily.