I had some dispute with my client somedays ago. He was saying that he got indexed all of his pages indexed in Google so don’t need a sitemap. I didn’t have any reason for him at that time. I just said that, having sitemap is not going to give you pain and it isn’t taking a lots of time too. So, why won’t you give around 2 minute to create sitemap? He said OK but didn’t updated Sitemap. Some days later we made changes to whole design without change in content. And looked last visit by Google. The design was still old. And visit date was different for every pages. What does that mean? If I am asked then I will say that, it was because Google bot visited those inner pages through backlinks only as we didn’t have sitemap for Google so it could easily crawl pages. It left the pages without crawling as it felt difficult. In other words, Google didn’t find it’s path in website.

So, let’s get sitemap. You can have plugin ready to generate sitemap as you update your website. If you don’t have one then you can simply generate one from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com. It will generate sitemap for you at free of cost.

That was for XML sitemap for Google but what’s for users? You can create  HTML sitemap for users. Users might get lost in your website. Hence get a path for them too. They will love to see all the ways you got in your website. They will love it more than searching in your search box all the time.

If you created both sitemap then you can submit your XML sitemap in Google Webmaster tool. In this way you can optimize your website far better for Google bot and get your report too.

Hence, don’t feel bore to create sitemap.