Building The Best Spiderable Sitemap

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by jdw4jesus, Oct 18, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hello everyone,

    I am in the process of recreating my sitemap , and I would like your opinions on what could be improved so that Google and the other sites would spider it better.

    I understand that most search engines prefer a sitemap to be 100 links or less, so I divided up all my nature photos onto seperate pages in groups of 10 as you can see here. I have done the same with some other topics. The problem, of course, is that it makes the the pages much "deeper" into the site.

    So, I am at a roadblock as to which would be the best overall method, and if I need to completely re-design the sitemap, I am willing to do it if it will be more efficient! :)

    Thanks everyone in advance!

    Jonathan

    btw, incase you didn't see in the post above the link is.... http://www.photosforsouls.com/sitemap.html
     
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    #3
    Your photo pages don't have any content, so there's no real point getting them spidered in the first place. Having a sub-sitemap (i.e. nature-sitemap.html) for each gallery is pointless, as each gallery points to all of the pages anyway. I suggest that you simply link to only the first of each photo gallery, and the search engine bots will find the other pages naturally.

    Also, there's no benefit to having links like 'links.html#bicycle', because the '#bicycle' bit is only interpreted by the browsers.

    Cryo.
     
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    Ok, thanks! It looks like I will have some changes to do :)
     
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    Anyone else? :(
     
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    Hey, have you try the SSG yet? (Secret Spider Generator)
     
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    Is my sitemap ok, i also have a XML sitemap but this my new one help?
    What is SSG?
     
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    Yikes - you should avoid SSG like the plague! It's a scam! All it does is generate an XML SiteMap for you, and there are other tools that do the same job for free. The one you've created yourself should do just fine.
     
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    Sorry to use a part of your statement...but is the above true ?
    What about sites with more than 1000 pages then ?
    just wondering...
     
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    Then divide your sitemap in to may pages. I dont know if link limit is true or not
     
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    whats the best program for making sitemaps?
     
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    So my way just list them is not a good idea?
     
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    With that many pages you are better off creating a file called "sitemap.txt" and then placing all of those links in it. Then submit that file to google sitemaps.

    You can also submit a similar file to yahoo with those links on it as well but you need to name the file "urllist.txt" this should help get your pages picked up faster by yahoo as well.
     
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    I already have a XML sitemap to Google so this one is not necessary ?

    Where do i submit to Yahoo? And it should not be in HTML and it should be places in the root ?
     
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    Yes, you will need to place it in the root, just copy all the links from your sitemap and drop them in urllist.txt file and that will be good enough.

    you will need a yahoo account. if you have one go here https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit and then add the urllist.txt file to the Submit Site Feed section.

    That is it, you have to give them some time of course.
     
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    #19
    A sitemaps is intended to easily find all the topic in your website by a human internet visitor.

    And also search engines tend to use the sitemap to crawl your website (even) more.

    Make your sitemap categorized within the topics, not just a bunch of links.

    Good examples for sitemaps is: http://www.apple.com/find/sitemap.html
     
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    aside from doing a site map, you can create separate pages with maximum of 100 links per page and put it in your footer and name the links sitemap a | sitemap b and so on...you should try to experiment with your site..you will see results in time. :)
     
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