Hi, Is there any drop and down menu that Googlebot could read? I found some, but IE7 is required. In Firefox it works correctly. But a lot of visitors uses IE 5 and 6. And if it's not possible, a sitemap would be sufficient to I have all my pages indexed? Or need I to have links in footer?
http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns Furthermore, an XML sitemap would only be required if significant numbers of pages are not being indexed, at which point you would really have much bigger things to worry about. I'd still include an HTML sitemap page (there's a wonderful article on the subject over at www.alistapart.com if you're interested) for usability purposes though (the search engines will find it if you link to it properly and will use it as well).
Content is what determines relevance. Sitemaps are best used for accessibility to the content (not to mention the Web site itself) and the usability of the Web site. Fortunatley search engines happen to use them to help find their way around the sites we make as well. It's a win-win situation.
I know content is relevance. But don't Google consider more relevant a site where pages are well linked? In this case, the good usability says that what user is looking for is what my site can offer. Think about Wordpress. Why many results in Google are from Wordpress? They have a lot of internal links, SEF urls, feeds and some plugins like Google sitemap creator. 3 days ago I created a weblog with Wordpress. I'm posting about 2 articles a day and Googlebot is visiting my site every hour! I have a lot of other sites and with them I don't have so good results.
Yes, Google will factor the number of inbound link, but you can't get those links unless you have quality content (especially if you're after quality inbound links). Google sitemaps aren't the end-all be-all that many make them out to be though. If you're going to use a sitemap (and you should) it should be in a human readable (and usable) format (such as a sitemap page) that people can not only use, but search engine spiders can also crawl. If you need to use a sitemap because your pages are not being indexed, then that indicates that your site (not yours specifically, just speaking in general here to whomever may be reading this) has much bigger problems to deal with. As for WordPress itself, it does have some problems with duplicate content due to how the category structure is set up (not to mention the archives). Thankfully there is a little-known plugin (I've not only promoted it at SitePoint, but also at The Blog Experiment [link: theblogexperiment.com] - that is not my site) as well, as have a few others) that can take care of that problem called Category Base Killer [link: brianshoff.com]. WordPress also does not use the best search engine friendly URL structure out of the box (but the option is available). Add in the All In One SEO Pack and Optimal Title though and I think you'll be good to go as far as using WordPress goes (of course knowing how to write your own themes helps a lot too). As for your site, it's new. Google's in a mad rush to find out everything it can about your site so it can rank your site properly in its index. The new site smell will go away soon.