Site Maps

[tigger]

How many links can you add onto a site map? I remember reading that Google doesn't crawl past 100 links and I've around 500 pages I need to link up. one option is to have 5 site maps

[2_much]

Ciml's the expert on this one, but my understanding is that after 100, the rest of the links don't pass PR, and the PR is divided amongst the 100 links. So basically, it sounds like 5 site map pages would be better.
I was checking out some site map creator tools, you might want to look into that, it would make it easier.

[tigger]

cheers, thats what I thought.

I'm not so worried about the site map tools as I'm having to build the pages so I'm just adding them into a site map as I go :( just a small job!

[mil2k]

remember reading that Google doesn't crawl past 100 links

I remember GoogleGuy saying that it was more of not crawling beyond 101K rather than not crawling more than 100 links.

As far as having 5 sitemap pages, that may not be too bad for future expansions :) I would personally divide them according to categories/themes. :)

[tigger]

well if it's the case I'm at 19.6kb and I'm only a faction into the site so 5 site maps is the way forward, but if anyone could confirm that would be very helpful

Thanks for feed back guys :)

[Nick_W]

Well, one way to look at it tigger: 5 site maps = 4 more pages....

Nick

[tigger]

you know considering I've got 500 more pages to build, I don't think that's so much an issues :)

[Nick_W]

Hhehe! Probably not, no. ;)

Nick

[mil2k]

Ok these are a few threads I could find :-

[webmasterworld.com...]

msg 11 from googleguy :-

100 links is a good soft limit, but 100K is a hard limit. All pages should be shorted than that.

[webmasterworld.com...]

msg 16 from googleguy :-

The "100 links" guidelines is just a good rule of thumb. Keeping pages below 100K is always a very good idea too. But it's not anything that would cause a penalty.

[webmasterworld.com...]

Msg 5 by pageoneresults is applicable to you IMHO.

HTH :)

[topr8]

on this 100k thing.

is it possible to build a 100k page? it seems so big to me, esp. if you are calling js and css externally as far as possible.

on site maps - i like implementing a kind of related links feature on each page, linking to relevant pages (and making sure i've shared the links out around the site) which has the same effect as a site map if you're using it to help the spiders along.

[John_Caius]

One of my client sites has twenty thousand pages distributed between twenty sitemaps - all the pages get indexed. Homepage PR of 6. Obviously the PR transfer is pretty bleak.