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will google accept this?
Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
is sitemapA.htm ok?
is there a design pattern for a good sitemap?
will google accept this?
But will your customers accept this?
No.
Obviously you are doing this for your rankings, so why are you doing this alphabetically? Makes no sense.
It would be better for your rankings, and for your customer, if you divided the 40 sitemaps by topic. Then you can optimize each individual sitemap for that keyword/topic- and place 100 links in there that are relevant for that particular keyword.
Sitemaps can perform very, very well on Google; why waste your time creating a lazy sitemap that only distributes a tiny amount of PR? Make it work double-duty: optimize it for maximum visibility.
Remember, every position on the serps that you occupy is a position that your competition does not.
"Then you can optimize each individual sitemap for that keyword/topic- and place 100 links in there that are relevant for that particular keyword."
i have thought of doing this but wont it be called keyword stuffing.
say i have a sitemap for 'travel' with 100 travel links air-travel.html cheaptickets.html...
would this be safe?
how do i make sure google identfies my sitemap page as a sitemap and not some keyword stuffed page?
thanks
sohail
Can you show an example where a keyword-stuffed page was penalized or not ranked? If it's relevant and makes sense to humans, I doubt you will get penalized for having a proper sitemap.
say i have a sitemap page on travel...
the page has links like travel,travel to new zealand,us travel,travel to mexico,air travel,adventure travel,world travel,travel direction,travel map,
travel asia
wont this be considered stuffing the page with the keyword 'travel'?
can someone show me a good example of a sitemap page.
should i have 'Sitemap' in <h1> tags?
If it's relevant and makes sense to humans
That's the key. BGumble is correct.
GoogleGuy has often said that if you make it good for the human visitor, then it should be good for you.
An alphabetical sitemap would be absolutely confusing to the surfer (and would probably be counterproductive to your website, or at the very least, cause no impact at all).
There is no harm in bringing order to a sitemap: When you get down to the essence of what seo is (at least to me), bringing order and focus to your message is what it's all about.
keyword stuffing/keyword density. There are a number of threads around here about that. However, I wouldn't worry about the keyword density thing. I would worry about an alphabetical listing.
[edited by: martinibuster at 3:20 pm (utc) on April 18, 2003]
thanks for the tip martinibuster.
ill make sure the sitemaps are topic wise.
I've done that, and the sitemap directory page has a good Page Rank, and passes a decent Page Rank on to the sitemap sub pages. I didn't construct it this way for Page Rank, but, rather, for the user. Nevertheless, all sitemap pages have turned out to be good for additional distribution of Page Rank internally.
Not necc so. I do it here for our own site search engine food. I cloak it off so that the big se's can't see it.
Ironic isn't it?
