Site Maps / Robots.txt etc

[LockCity]

Hi everyone

I have setup a site map using a Wordpress pluggin: http://lockcity.co.uk/site-map/

Can you please tell me if this is sufficient for the search engines? I am trying to understand the difference between this and having a robots.txt - or do I need both?

Many thanks, Abi

[irvingw]

A sitemap is for crawling your pages, either a user sitemap like you set up or a sitemap.xml file which is a streamlined way for Google to spider your site.

Robots.txt is used to direct the bots where NOT to go like if you don't want them crawling certain parts of your site like cgi-bin, js folder or images folder for example.

[LockCity]

Ahh I see thanks so much for your reply - is it best to get an XML site map rather than the one I have?

Thanks, Abi