Website Map

[yvt360]

Is there a good script that I can use for my website map?
Is it a good idea to have my site map dynamically created?

[Mohamed_E]

As usual, the answer is an unequivocal "It depends" :(

There are many programs that will analyze the links of a web site and produce a site map. But if you crosslink pages extensively that map will have no logical structure. This is probably OK if your only reason for making the site map is as spider food, but it will be of limited use to humans.

Of course, if you have thousands of pages you may have no choice; I would guess that it is impossible to manually maintain a site map of that magnitude.

[nakulgoyal]

I would suggest you to create one manually.

[ByronM]

Is there a good method to creating the map so it doesn't look like "google bombing" or spamming links?

[Mohamed_E]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, ByronM!

I am not sure what you mean. A site map, by definition, consists of links and descriptive text, that is the nature of the beast. Google, in their Webmaster Guidelines [google.com] write:

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.

[takagi]

Even Google has a site map [google.com] so no problem I guess.

[jbinbpt]

A site map doesn't have to point everywhere, just to the important places. It really is a roadmap and not a complete index. Use the site map to flatten out the hierarchy of the page structure. This shortens the distance to the index page, which is what you are looking for.
Also relevant links work much better when worked into the content pages, than onto an index page.

[ncw164x]

Zenu link checker gives you the links to add to a site map after it has finished checking your site

There are scripts available but this is simple to use, just add the url to check and the program does he rest

ncw164x