How Many Pages Should I Put in my Sitemap?

One of my site is a photo collection site (sig link titled 'photo sharing service')

As time goes on it will get more and more photos and obviously have more and more pages, should I relly put every single individual photo detail page in my sitemap? Im just thinking because eventually the sitemap could end up with thousands of pages!

Thanks.

 

I personally wouldnt put every single idividual photo.

But if you have for exmaple groupings or categories I would.

It really depends on the type of content.

If you are worried about having too many pages, just paginate your site map. Thats what I do when it is too long.

 

Sitemap will not help your rankings. So it's not a good action to update your sitemap everytime when you got a photo, instead you can spend that to do some more important seo promotion.

 

If we are talking XML sitemaps, I would probably, once in a while, update the sitemap with the new pages containing the photos.

It is easy to do with a sitemap generator program.
(E.g. using Windows task scheduler to launch it once every week)

 

Yes I am talking about XML sitemaps, sorry should have said that earlier.

Thanks for the replys.

 

ya u can put many page link in site map

 

When talking about the XML sitemaps, I think no one has ever been able to fill it up so that there is no more room. Just add as much as you like. (Something around 50000 links is ok if I am not wrong)

 

Put as much as you can, sitemap helps googlebot to crawl your site easily, it does not help indexing or improving PR of your site, but it make a lot easier for crawlers to view your site structure.

I have all of my site links in xml sitemap

 

Categories, Sub Categories etc. not every photo.

 

Put as much as you can, sitemap helps googlebot to crawl your site easily, it does not help indexing or improving PR of your site, but it make a lot easier for crawlers to view your site structure.

 

You can get some xml sitemaps that update automatically for you.

 

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Hi
Site maps that make it easier for google means your site will be fully indexed, all your sites pages so if that is what google wants for their free search engine I say give it to them
Cheers.

 

Site Map is easiest way to know how many pages in website.

 

I just use my home page in my sitemap and G still picks up all the pages of my site.

 

As many pages as you want google to crawl of your site....