What Google uses your site's web map for in SEO

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A sitemap is a very useful tool for Google, which is why it penalizes all pages that do not have this element. Creating and sending a sitemap to the search engine is very simple, it will only take a few minutes and you will be telling Google which pages it should show and how it should crawl your website.

What Google uses your sitemap for
A sitemap has two basic functions for the search engine. On the one hand, it indicates the pages that can be indexed, i.e. shown to the public. This is important because many pages have restricted rcs database and therefore should not be shown to the user.

The second function is to provide Google with a crawl map for robots. Web pages are usually made up of different elements, generating complex and highly hierarchical structures. Google works to crawl each of your pages, and it does so based on the web map.

The sitemap tells Google the route it should take when crawling the website. If there were no sitemap, Google robots would analyze the page in a disorganized manner, and therefore it would take much longer to obtain results.

How do I create and submit a sitemap to Google?
For a sitemap to be useful, it is not enough to just create it, but also to get it to Google. This is actually a very simple process.

The first thing you need to do is decide which pages on your website you want to show up in Google's SERPs by adding the index tag. Noindex pages will not be able to be shown among the publicly visible results.

You should also indicate the canonical versions, that is, the main pages in case any duplication occurs.

The most appropriate option is to use an automatic generation tool for your web map. This type of tool can develop a complete web map of your page, reflecting all the content, although you can also do it manually.