sitemap targeting upper level directories - bad practice?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by pedrotuga, Mar 5, 2007.

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    I have a dynamic site and i wrote a script that generates an html sitemap with meaningful urls. It is not working so well. The complicated address gets indexed rather than the fancy one.
    I suspect the problem is the sitemap targeting upper dirs.

    for example, the article #9623 can be accessed through:

    http://mysite.tld/showarticle.php?id=9623

    or through the sitemap located at

    http://mysite.tld/archive

    that has a link to

    http://mysite.tld/an-article-about-stuff-9623.html

    the question is: should i change the rewriting so the sitemap links to:

    http://mysite.tld/archive/an-article-about-stuff-9623.html

    if so why?
     
    pedrotuga, Mar 5, 2007 IP