A sitemap is a map of web pages that helps website visitors and search engines navigate your car dealer website.
We
have two types of sitemaps - HTML sitemaps, and XML sitemaps.
HTML
sitemaps are primarily for website visitors, whereas XML sitemaps primarily guide
search engines to discover and crawl your web pages.
Car
dealer websites will be using XML sitemaps for search ranking, but HTML sitemaps
are also important. Here's why.
1: Helps in Organizing Large
Websites
Your
car dealer website typically runs into hundreds of web pages, including vehicle
detail pages. The quickest shortcut to reach a destination page is the HTML
sitemap.
2: Projects the Purpose of
Your Car Dealer Website
An HTML
sitemap is essentially a content map that can enhance your car dealership website’s
value to your target audience. The keywords included in the sitemap can improve
your website’s search engine optimization techniques, thereby resulting in
better website ranking.
Using
anchor texts in the sitemap can also contribute to an improvement in website SEO
via inter-links.
3: Guide Search Engine
Spiders to Navigate Your Car Dealer Website
Every website needs to be crawled by search engines, in order to get indexed on the search engine for online visibility.
An HTML sitemap can also help this process.
4: Reveals Web Architecture
HTML
sitemaps are similar to the blueprint of your architectural project. It revels
the structure and the underlying linkages of your car dealer website.
5: Improve Search Engine
Visibility
Often, search engine spiders will not crawl all the pages on your car dealer website.
If your website has a well-planned sitemap, then the likelihood of all
the pages being crawled increases, resulting in improved search indexation, and visibility.
6: Help in Inter-linking
Using
an HTML sitemap, you can optimize your website to highlight preferred pages as authoritative
pages. Interlinking other pages to these pages becomes easier.
For more information on HTML sitemaps and how to optimize it to promote your car dealership, Contact Us.