How much to include in my sitemap

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    I have a tutorials dynamic site, my site is getting bigger so I will write a PHP script to dynamically generate sitemap from database.
    My question is: How much and how deep should I generate urls?
    In my site, you can view tutorials by sitename, by category, by sub-category...etc which are considered different urls, Should I generate urls for all those?

    Also, how about page numbers? should I generate urls for all pages like: http://mysite.com/photoshop/1/, http://mysite.com/photoshop/2/,
    http://mysite.com/photoshop/3/ ....etc?

    I'm asking because automated sitemap generators seem to do that, they follow every possible url in your site. I just don't know if this is the right thing to do if you have more control.
     
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  2. mistoovrool

    mistoovrool Banned

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    2 deep level should be good.
     
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  3. ahelpinghand

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    Maybe I wasn't clear enough thus the lack of answers.

    I know about duplicate content but I'm confused because it's not exactly "the same content" it's more like other views of the content because of sorting. compare those three links to have a more clear idea of what I'm talking about:

    http://www.tutorialsroom.com/tutoria...otoshop/all/1/
    http://www.tutorialsroom.com/tutoria...nline.co.uk/1/
    http://www.tutorialsroom.com/tutoria...oto_effects/1/

    Now, should I include those 3 urls in my sitemap?
     
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