Sitemap is a file with an XML extension type. And a sitemap is a map for the sites, which is consists a number collection of URLs from the pages within the site. Sitemap URLs are usually arranged in hierarchy.
Sitemap is used to inform the search engines that there is a new page that should to be crawling. The crawling activity is to call the web crawler to do indexing job, so that a new page can be indexed by search engines.
Search Engine Web Crawler usually find a new pages from the URLs that is within the site or from the other sites. That is why a site should have a sitemap. Again, because the sitemap is a set of all URLs of pages.
How do I make a sitemap?
To create a sitemap, first use this link as a process of creating a sitemap http://www.xml-sitemaps.com if the generated sitemap.xml completed, downmlad file then upload the file into the root domain of your site.
Every time a new page is created, the sitemap should be updated. Unless you willing to pay to buy a program that can generate a sitemap automatically every time a new page appears.
To submit your sitemap to google webmaster tools you can found the article here "How to Add Blogger Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools", replace rss.xml with sitemap.xml.
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