Why Site Maps are Important There are many steps in optimizing a website and one important step is having sitemaps, which is sometimes underestimated.  Sitemaps, as the name implies, are just a map of your site, one single page you show the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc. Sitemaps make navigating your site easier and having an updated sitemap on your site is good both for your users and for search engines. Sitemaps are an important way of communication with search engines. While in robots.txt you tell search engines which parts of your site to exclude from…