Spiderable site maps

Any live examples ?

[fom2001uk]

I'm trying to explain to our developers the importance of having a site map for search engine spiders, not for users.

You know the idea - a page containing a selection (not all) of your important internal pages, but not just a series of links. Links with descriptive text (and targeted keywords) for each.

None of them have ever seen one, and I was sure I could show lots of examples, but I can't find any. There must be lots, surely. It's hardly rocket science SEO, is it ?

Can anyone list examples, or stickymail me some ?

Thanks a lot.

[fom2001uk]

Thanks to seokat and ukgimp for those examples. I suppose what I'm looking for is a combination of both those styles. A page with significant copy plus a list of URLs each with good descriptions.

Thanks and if there are any other examples, let me know.

[Grumpus]

On my site, I have dynamically generated "site map" pages that are there primarily for spiders. (No visitor in their right mind would actually browse my site this way). I originally started with an Alphabetical listing of my site which worked well, but I found that things starting with the letter "G" and beyond weren't making it into the index. So, I created a "Browse by Recent Additions" page and banned the bots from my "Alphabrowse" pages. This works much better, but since there are just soooo many pages on my site, it's tough to get the bots to move along that in a logical fashion. On a smaller site where most of the pages will make the index, either one of these would work well.

G.