The major search engines require sitemap.xml on your Website to quickly crawl and list it. We have categorized following tips to help you in creating a sitemap.
1. It is necessary to differently prioritize all the site URLs and individual pages uploaded on your Website. The equal priority means there is no priority at all.
2. It doesn’t mean that sitemap submission results into better page ranks. This is just a method to enable search engine robots to crawl your Website.
3. The search engines will not penalize your Website for indexing or ranking the pages even if you have submitted a wrong sitemap file/
4. If you are creating a sitemap for your complete site, then place it in the root folder. For example, http://www.sample.com/sitemap has a sitemap of complete Website whereas http://www.sample.com/images/sitemap will have a sitemap of sample.com/images only.
5. Most of the search engines prefer to have XML format of sitemap.
Informational Resource: http://www.etechbuzz.com/sitemap-file-for-faster-crawling-and-indexing-of-site/

