Site Maps Make a Better Blog
There are two very important considerations if you wish to make a living out of your blogs – one is to increase the number of visitors and traffic to your blog and the other is to increase your blog’s page rank. Your blog is not much different from an organisation or a retail shop in the real world – a retailer, for instance, would want to increase the number of people who walk in at his shop and also, would want to have his brand name up in the minds of people who may be looking for options to shop. There is a simple but effective tool that works in these directions, while making life easier for your visitors.
A site map is a well known, simple and easy to understand tool that is useful in more ways than one. First, it is a marketing tool that would leave your visitors satisfied. If you are in a mall that you visit for the first time, you are more likely than not to get lost, ending up looking for the customer service desk or for that security guard who does not understand your language, for guidance to get to where you want. Good malls, however, do away with that need for you to ask for help, by placing maps at convenient locations on all floors. Visitors stay happy with sitemaps as they do not get lost and get more out of the time they spend, rather than searching for their way through your site.
The other important function of a site map is that it helps in doing what you always wanted – enhancing your blog’s page rank. Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing give a blog a better recognition if there are more links in the blog; and they don’t mind much if these links are internal or external. With every internal link, your blog’s page rank improves as search engines rate your blog higher. And a site map does just that – link internally!
Thus, you score twice with one shot – an enhanced experience for your reader who is less likely to get lost with a site map and an improved page rank for your blog that helps it scale up search results. Site map generator plug-ins are available that does the job for you, such as this one.
My name is Sahil Mehta, an entrepreneur and a full time blogger. 
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