Hierarchy in a Website

Versatility in a structure tree makes for a smoother website.

Building a website can be challenging, and the more pages you add to said website, the more complicated it gets. It is important to make sure that when you are building a website, that you consider the sitemap. A sitemap is the overall layout and connectivity of your webpages, each block representing an individual page or interactable (a product, for instance).

Sitemaps are fundamentally a good tool to use for preparing to build and design your website, as they allow you to move, add, and remove pages that you may have considered in your initial layout. It’s easier to visualize what pages work well together, what webpages should be sub-categories, which ones should be standalone, and so on.

Sitemaps are also critical for search engines, like Google, to find your website and promote it higher on the search list. SEO and sitemaps go hand-in-hand in that regard, helping what are known as “spiders” crawl through and determine the structure of your website, and understand the integrity of it.

Sitemaps are the core of a website. If you want high quality SEO, good organization and layout of your website, and just an overall visualization of what your website is going to look like, then there is no better place to start than with your sitemap.


Until next time,

-Sebastian Leonard

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