Sitemap submission to web-crawler for SEO

A  Sitemap is an XML file that is full of your individual webpage’s URLs which hlps search engine crawlers to read the contents of your site easily.This sitemap file should be easily determine in your site in order to search engine crawlers to accident upon it. Sitemap is usually generated for the purpose of allowing the search engine crawlers follow the links to all your individual webpages and documents.Thus, sitemap is used to explain your web site’s central content themes and also to display both search engine and visitors where to find information on your site. 

How does a good sitemap helps you?

1. Sitemap displays a quick, easy-to-follow overview of your site.
2. It offers a pathway for the search engine robots to monitor and find contents relevant to search phrase in your site.
3. It offers text links to every page of your site.
4. Sitemap Quickly displays visitors how to get and where they need to go for their search queries.
5. Sitemap also helps by making use of important keywords phrases.

However there are a lot of advantages of sitemap while SEO.

Here I have a simple example of sitemap for all images description in the site.

XML File (sitemap_image.xml)

 <url>  
 <location>http://www.example.com/myhomepage </location>  
 <lastmod>2015-02-16</lastmod>  
 <image:image>  
 <image:location>  
 http://www.example.com/images/myfirstimage.gif  
 </image:location>  
 </image:image>  
 <image:image>  
 <image:location>  
 http://www.example.com/images/mysecondimage.gif  
 </image:location>  
 </image:image>  
 </url>  

This provides data on site,images and the page locations of these images for making crawlers of search engine easy to find your image contents and their relevant links in your site and get them displayed in their respective indexing.