how much link in a xml sitemap per page

How much links should i use per page in a google .xml sitemap for optimal crawling.

 

Use not more than 100 links in a page so that the sitemap will not look crowded. If you have more than 100 pages, split it and give the link from the sitemap 1 (containing 100 pages) to the next one and go on like this. It would help to optimize the crawling rate of bots /spiders

 

Thx dairyman

my question resolved too ...

 

Sitemap can be as many as 50,000 links. Beyond that, it's no longer good.
You can create sitemap1, sitemap2, sitemap3...

 

sinadijaja22, xml sitemap doesn't have pages, I think you confuse it with html sitemap.
XML sitemaps should be no larger than 10MB and can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. If you have more than 50,000 pages in your web site you should use sitemap index file: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemap_index

 

where did you read that 100 was the limit, I have never read that about google sitemaps?

 

I think perhaps dairyman is talking about HTML sitemaps? (Where 100 is a good suggestion.) While the original poster asked about XML sitemaps.

 

Here you guys created big confusion is there any expert who can solve all this ????? please give me proper advice, should we use 100 links on sitemap.html and also 100 links on .xml?? if I have site which have more then 2000 page then what should I do? should I create more then 20 sitemap pages for my site.?

Regards
Aryans

 

Google Webmaster tool support 50000 lines in one xlm sitemap file.

 

I am totally agree with my friend that google webmaster tool support 50000 urls in one sitemap.xml file

 

webmaster2all, supporting 50000 urls depends on sitemap protocol.

 

For HTML sitemaps, you may want to check this article about HTML sitemap navigation, it suggests using 100-200 URLs per page. However, XML sitemaps have a much higher limit. The XML sitemaps protocol defines it to 50000 URLs per file... So don't bother splitting your XML sitemap into multiple files when you only have 2000 pages.

 

great thanks.I thought so for xml but i haven'tknow for sure

 

Here's what google has to say about the URLS limit & size limit of XML sitemap

I would recommend to have maximum to 300 URLS in the XML sitemap. The reason is very simple.
1. It wll have maxium 300*6 = 1800 plus 5 more lines.
2. Size will be less & can easily be downloaded by search engine
3. Easy to crawl the sitemap as less number of URLs to crawl.

So if you have a big website then better to divide it by section wise & create seperate sitemap for each section. Then create sitemap index with all the details of rest other sitemap.

 

i have a question :

if i set Max pages in sitemap : 10000 - so each day a new sitemap will be generate with 10000 pages include .so i want to know what would be happen to those old links that will be quit from sitemap day by day ?? and is it good that google see that my sitemap is always 10000 ??

thanks

 

Hi Mecho,

Tell me how big your website is?

As i said earlier create multiple XML sitemap & then one index sitemap withe the location of all other sitemap.

 

i have around 800 pages in my site , each page has 40 links inside .

 

What? couldn't get you. What this 40 links. External links or internal links or any dynamic genearted web pages.

Extrenal links are not to be added in XML sitemap. Only internal web pages need to be added.

 

u set that no one can send a pm to u . i really need to show my site to u . so maybe u can make me clear that my sitemap created in correct way or not ...

possible to talk to u via pm or any messenger ?
thanks

 

Add you site in the signature link. Anyways I have enabled PM status. Just send me PM with your site link.