• Performance monitoring: You can track website's search traffic, impression, clicks, average traffics from search console's dashboard. These are very useful insights which helps you to measure your progress and performance. You can understand audiences behaviors and respond by making significant changes to boost up or attract more audiences. 
• Identify best keywords: Search console helps you to find out the best keywords which matches to your website or content. 
• Better search visibility: You can submit sitemap using google search console (The steps are discussed below in details). When you submit website's sitemap to search console, Google's search engine crawler will inspect your site and index the pages accordingly to the search results for relevant keywords people look for. 
• Find and resolve issues: Search console also provides data about website errors and security issues which helps you to resolve those in the first place. You can also find issues like duplicate contents,  broken links or pages which are costing you to lose traffics constantly.  

Using Domain Property 

1. HTML sitemaps
2. XML sitemaps

• You have large website with complex architecture and a lot of links 
• Improve the overall site usability and accessibility 
• You want your users to find specific content very quickly 

• Image sitemap: If your website holds a lot images inside and you want index those in the search engine, you would have to generate a image sitemap to do so. It holds the list of image URLs and their metadata ( Such as title, description, location etc ) 
• Video sitemap: Similar to Image sitemap, A video sitemap also lists the index of all the videos of your website and their metadata ( Title, description, Thumbnail, Length etc. ). You should use it when you have a  large number of video files. 
• News sitemap: This one is less used today, but this category of sitemaps used to hold the information about new published articles. 
• Mobile sitemap: Specifies mobile friendly pages for your website. But now they are actually less common. 

• You have a new website and you want to index your pages in the search engines.
• For large website which holds many URLs as contents, but needs to identify, prioritize and index all the important contents first.
• To improve discoverability in the dynamic website which holds deep linking. 
• Websites which holds large volume of media data such as images or videos which should have a proper index to make them more accessible.

Place the sitemap file to your site's root

• Posts
• Id
• Slug
• Title
• Description
• Status 

            
<?php
            


            
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
            


            
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
            
use App\Models\Post;
            


            
class SitemapController extends Controller
            
{
            
    public function index()
            
    {
            
        $posts = Post::latest()->get();
            


            
        return response()->view('sitemap', [
            
            'posts' => $posts
            
        ])->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
            
    }
            
}
            

            
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'; ?>
            
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
            
    @foreach ($posts as $post)
            
        <url>
            
            <loc>{{ url('/article/', $post->slug) }}</loc>
            
            <lastmod>{{ $post->created_at->tz('UTC')->toAtomString() }}</lastmod>
            
            <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
            
            <priority>0.9</priority>
            
        </url>
            
    @endforeach
            
</urlset>