Does Sitemap really matters today?

[vtmoz]

Hi.

Our website has multiple subdomians and domain platform is wordpress. But we haven't submitted sitemap to Google. Is this Okay? Or it's mandatory to submit sitemap? Is submitting a sitemap gonna help us in ranking improvement?

[Alick300]

Hi,

Yes it does matter and every site should have sitemaps.

Sitemaps help search engines find and classify content on your site that they may not have found on their own. A sitemap is just there to help Google (and other search engines) crawl and hopefully index all your content.

If you are not using sitemaps for your site I would suggest you to submit sitemaps.

Thanks

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

Yes! They're still important, in itself they won't give you any ranking boost as it will only increase the easiness for the search engines to crawl your pages. So they will find all your pages on your site more easily. If you're already using WordPress you can easily set up your plugins to provide you with sitemaps, don't forget to add them in a line to your robots.txt and definitely make sure you submit them in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Martijn.