A sitemap is a list of the different pages on a website. By creating a proper sitemap, you can improve your SEO performance.

Quick Sprout contributor Lars Lofgren has shared a five-step process to help you create the sitemap for your website.

He says, “Your sitemap will tell search engines the location of a page on your website, when it was updated, the updating frequency, and the importance of the page as it’s related to other pages on your site. Without a proper sitemap, Google bots might think that your site has duplicate content, which will actually hurt your SEO ranking.

If you’re ready for your website to get indexed faster by search engines, just follow these five easy steps to create a sitemap.

Step 1: Review the structure of your pages

The first thing you need to do is look at the existing content on your website and see how everything is structured.

Look at a sitemap template and figure out how your pages would be displayed on the table.

website sitemap template

This is a very basic example that’s easy to follow”.

5 Easy Steps to Creating a Sitemap For a Website

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