This is Google’s definition of a sitemap: “Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.”

It’s important to have a sitemap for the search engines to crawl.  This will buy the best insurance that each of your pages will get noticed and found by the search bots.

Here’s my step by step video on how to setup the Google XML Sitemaps plugin and link it to your Google Webmaster Account.  If you don’t have a Google Webmaster account, you simple create one using your Gmail account login.

Create a Google Webmaster Account here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/