One of the most overlooked features with a corporate website, is the humble sitemap. When your customers want to find something quickly they will usually look for a search feature or a site map.

Simply put, a sitemap is an overview of all the pages on your website. Which is almost like a table of contents, but each of the entries is a link to that particular page. When you add pages to your website, especially product pages, be certain your Webmaster knows to update those pages.

If you're still thinking a sitemap is a lot of work for just having a page for people to find your products from, the other purpose of a site map is so that the various spiders sent from search engines like Google and directories such as Yahoo, can index your site quickly. If you want all of your website's pages to have the opportunity to be indexed and show up on people's search engine return results, a site map is the key element you need to accomplish this.

Once you get your site map going, it is fairly easy to maintain. When you add a page or product page, simply make a note to update your site map as well. If you make any changes on your website, adding deleting pages, be sure your site map reflects this and it keeps your website fresh and current.

A site map should be a integral part of any good ecommerce website and if you haven't planned to add a sitemap to your website, be sure to incorporate one in your final design so your website visitors can find the information they need quickly and the search engines can index you and insure that you'll be found on the web!