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How Important Is Anchor Text In Sitemaps For SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by jdw4jesus, Jun 19, 2006.

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    Hello everyone! Me again...

    My main goal for my sitemap is to give Google and other search engines "spider food", so I have every page linked to my site on there, and Google has most of them indexed.

    I was thinking about re-wording the anchor text to something descriptive instead of just my link, but that would take quite a bit of creativity and time, so I was curious as to how much of a difference that would make when people are searching for that keyword. Would it boost my rankings, or make Google more likely to spider it?

    I hope you understand what I mean...if not, I will try to make it more understandable ;)

    Thank you in advance for your time!

    Jonathan
     
    jdw4jesus, Jun 19, 2006 IP
  2. mike_01

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    yes i would recommend you to provide the description to the pages too as that would make the crawler love your site...
     
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    I have some descripton about the link already. I will add more though!

    Anyone else have other views on this?
     
    jdw4jesus, Jun 19, 2006 IP
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    #4
    photosforsouls.com/nature.html
    photosforsouls.com/nature3.html
    photosforsouls.com/nature4.html

    Use anchor text rather then giving links like this.... also add some description against every link so that the visitors (as well as the crawler) the idea about the linked page...
     
    mike_01, Jun 20, 2006 IP
  5. jdw4jesus

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    Oh, okay! I will try to do that!

    Thanks!
     
    jdw4jesus, Jun 20, 2006 IP
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    Ok, I have made some changes here, please tell me if I am headed in the right direction.
     
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    #7
    You are on the right track. You may also want to put a sentence or two description after each link.
     
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    Ok, thanks! I do not have a lot of time at the moment, but I will do that as soon as I can!
     
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    Anyone else?
     
    jdw4jesus, Jun 21, 2006 IP
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    I don't have anything helpful to add for improving your anchor text, but I would like to compliment you on your site's content.

    Those photos are beautiful. Nice work :)
     
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    Thank you very much CJan_NH! :)
     
    jdw4jesus, Jun 22, 2006 IP
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    #12
    is this sitemap different from XML sitemaps>??
     
    Amit_R, Feb 18, 2012 IP
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    Amit_R Member

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    i mean xml site maps are different from HTML sitemaps..which is better n how to prepare them??
    thanx
     
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    Irfi0009 Banned

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    I would have both types of sitemaps.
     
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    i prefer .xml sitemap.... use wp plugin for preparing xml sitemap..
     
    dee_838, Feb 18, 2012 IP