Where should I place my Sitemap?
We recommend you to place your sitemap in root directory of your website.
Example- Suppose you have a website yourdomain.com and sitemap file sitemap.xml
Then URL of the file should be http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
Best Location for sitemap placement
What is the importance of XML sitemap in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ?
As sitemap helps the search engine to get the pages indexed
quickly ultimately increase traffic quickly, it is obviously
the integral part of Search Engine Optimization. We can say
it is one of the aspects (step) in SEO because anyone who is
working on SEO does this step of generating and submitting the
sitemap to search engines. According to us importance of sitemap
in SEO is about 20% which is much.
How to validate my XML sitemap?
Finding out errors in sitemap is one more important thing.
When you submit the sitemap to yahoo or Google webmaster tool
wait until it download your sitemap. Webmaster tool will tell
you if there are errors in sitemap. If you want to know before
submitting or waiting for webmaster tool till it downloads,
you can use online XML validator tool.