I have been reading how Google frowns on pages with more than 100 links. With sitemaps (personally created ones, not the new Google ones), how are those with several hundred or even thousands of pages of content putting this together? My site has 244 pages right now, with all the links on one page. I was thinking of busting my sitemap up into 6 pages, with more later for future growth. Is this the best way to go?
The idea of site maps helping spiders is too old. Currenty, the best usage for sitemaps is for SEO and huge sites. For SEO the sitemap shows which pages are the most important. You do that by: 1. putting a link to the sitemap on every page to make that sitemap page important and then 2. putting only the most important pages/the ones that target the most competitive keywords in there. For huge sites, site maps are a usability/SEO feature. The list important sections in an easy to use way.
So, in my case I would be better off just having a link to my State-by-State page and my article pages rather than the setup I have now http://www.quoteforinsurance.com/sitemap.html