Over the last few weeks I’ve completed a number of SEO appraisals for our clients and there’s one critical thing that seems to be omitted from the majority of sites i’ve been looking at - the Sitemap.

A sitemap is simply a page or set of pages that lists all of the pages on your website. If you have a small site the sitemap can be contained to one page, however if you have a large site then it might be necessary to break it down into a number of categories.

The sitemap allows users and more importantly the search engines to find all of the pages on your website in one place, increasing the chances of your pages getting indexed whilst pointing some good anchor text rich internal links at your pages.

If you’ve never seen a sitemap before, here’s quite a simple example:

http://www.giftsguideuk.com/site-map/

There’s no excuse for not having a sitemap, so if you don’t have one, take 20 minutes out to create one now!