A site map is a tree-style representation of the structural and hierarchical linkage of a web site

Using sitemaps has many benefits – not only do they make it easier for navigation and better visibility for search engines but also offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site.

Sitemaps are particularly beneficial on websites where:

Some areas of the website are not available through the browsable interface, or

If webmasters use rich Ajax, Silver light, or Flash content that is not normally processed by search engines.
When your visitors see your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short time and henceforth there is no need to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through each page and by doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird's eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just with a single glance at the sitemap.

Sitemap’s use encourages having a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.
MSN, Yahoo, Ask, and Google use the same protocol for indexing – having a Sitemap lets the four biggest search engines have the updated page information about you.

Technically speaking – Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.

Having a Sitemap is extremely beneficial for the indexing of pages on a website. When a search engine robot finds this page, it will follow the links on the sitemap and therefore every single page of your site will get crawled and indexed.

More often, the homepage of a website has the highest page rank – So, by placing a sitemap link there, all the pages on website will be indexed much faster.

Sitemap submission increases your chances to list in search engine results as they can even help with messy internal links.

For Generating Sitemaps you can prefer the below websites:

XML Sitemap   http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Auto Sitemap Script http://www.autositemap.com/

So by all means:

‘It’s logical to say that sitemaps are very important

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