A few years back, sitemaps were the buzz and there were a ton of tools available to create online sitemaps for your blogs. Fast forward to today, and most search engines are advanced enough to crawl your entire site as it is. When you think about it, do you really want to trust the spiders to search the way they should? Especially when you can create a sitemap and ensure that all or at the very least most of your pages get indexed instead of relying on someone or something else.
The sitemaps in use today are link based and an xml based site map. A link based sitemap can still be very handy for your blog because it displays all the links of your site on one page, some even break the links down by categories. This is a great feature because it allows users to just click on your site map, and literally browse what you have available instead of having to search for something. When people browse, they tend to click on titles that catch there eye, and secondly on what there actually looking for. Another reason a linked based sitemap is nice is because it interlinks all your sites pages to one another.
XML site maps, I’ve never seen a click able one, are typically intended for use by the search engine spiders. There are a ton of plug ins available for WordPress to do just that for you and I’m sure your aware of those already. If you happen to be looking for a link based sitemap plug in, I think I may have found just what your looking for. It’s called Sitemap Generator Plug in for Wordpress, Dagon Design makes it and I believe it IS still available through the plug in menu. This plug in offers a lot of options to build your sitemap on one settings page and is also extremely easy to install. Any questions just feel free to ask.
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