With the launch of the internet giant's (Google) new search algorithm: Panda, the structure and design of website is now much more important. Gone are the days whereby all you needed to rank your website high in the search results was to have a lot of links. It did not even matter even if the links were spammy or not. The more links you had, the higher you ranked for your desired keywords.

Sitemaps are very important for SEO because it gives the search engines the proper path to find, crawl and index your blog pages. In an earlier post I explained how to submit sitemap to bing. The procedure for giving your sitemap to google is not too different from that of Bing.
For google all you need do is to make a one-time submission based on the number of posts you have. Just like I said in the previous post, sitemaps are one of the factors for getting your blog high up in the SERPs.

In my recent post on how to submit your blogger sitemap to bing/yahoo, I outlined some basic SEO strategies that you should do to improve your Search Engine Rank Position (SERP) and traffic. Below are the points again

• Getting Quality backlinks
• Writing quality content
• Using the right keywords
• Submitting your Sitemap to Google, Bing/Yahoo
• Creating Videos and linking them to your blog
• Submitting your site to Directories

Every blog or website needs good and quality SEO in order to become visible in the search engines and ultimately gain a good amount of traffic.

There are several Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques that can be employed in getting your blog/website good traffic from the search engines and a very imporatant one of the procedures is submitting a site map to them.