: Sitemap for a one-page site I'm wondering whether it's worth the effort to create a sitemap for a single-page site. By single page I'm not talking about a webapp made with Angular or Backbone,

@Dunderdale272

There's an exception here, and that's if you have videos on your site.


You can use the Google Video extension to the Sitemap protocol to give Google information about video content on your site. You can create a new video Sitemap or add video information to an existing Sitemap.


The same can be said for for images and news if applicable.

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@Candy875

SiteMaps for Single Page Webs

Using CSS to place images and html objects inside DIV tags with invisible overflow containers allows us to make super web sites with many pages inside of a single HTML file. Draw a diagram showing how each anchor link inside your super page. Treat each anchor link as a separate HTML document in the diagram, because that area of your html document represents one full page. Submit your site map to bing.com and google.com as an XML document. Some of the most sophisticated designs are now being implemented into a single html file, a CSS document, and a simple PHP form validation script. I have seen web sites that use only one html file for massive sites that contain a lot of information.

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@Berumen354

I'm assuming you're referring to an XML Sitemap? If so, then no - the sole purpose of an XML sitemap is to facilitate in the discovery (for indexation) of URLs/Pages. So if you only have one page, then there's no point. If you're worried about being found by search engines, you can either link to your page (from another site, or a twitter/Google+ page), register your domain with webmaster tools (either Bing or Google).

On the off-chance you were referring to an HTML sitemap, then no - your single-page site becomes a two page site, and you only have internal fragment (hash) links on your main-page anyway.

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