Sitemap: incoming links to sitemap yes or not?

Is it good to get links pointing to sitemap?

[silverbytes]

Is a fact no one can get incoming links to all your site's pages. So I try to get most of links to www.mysite.com;

But I wonder if getting incoming links to my sitemap would be a good strategy...
Or to my links page (the one with external links to other sites)...

What do you say?

[RoadRash]

I would only work on getting links for my sitemap / links page after you acchive what you want with your main keywords site wide.

Will links to the sitemap help in the long run? I would think so, any link will help. With a high PR on your sitemap, you can push certin pages higher then others. I would not go find links to your links page, unles you are a directory and plan on sending your traffic to other sites.

[trillianjedi]

You'll have much better success with anchor text inbound links going to your deeper pages, rather than just trying to use the sitemap as a PR gateway.

TJ

[buckworks]

It would depend on your site whether cultivating links to your site map would be a productive strategy.

If every page in your site is equally valuable for content or sales, go for it. If other sites would think it makes sense to link to your site map, go for it.

However, for many sites it's wiser to try to focus their PR on select internal pages, rather than spread it evenly to all pages. For example, if you have a sales process that moves people through several pages, it would make sense to structure your links to focus PR on the first page in the series. Also, "housekeeping" pages such as privacy policies, contact pages, media kits etc. don't need the same PR as content/sales pages.

I would recommend not cultivating links to your links page, as some of the PR gained would flow right out to the other sites on that page rather than circulating within your own site first. If someone wants to link to your links page, accept it graciously, of course, but if you're actually asking for links that's likely not the most effective place to spend your efforts.

[silverbytes]

The case is:

Site is a services guide with states and locations so there are 3 levels

Index > the general guide
Cities > linked from main index
Services itself > linked from cities

So the map contain links to the third level.. all of them, instead linking to index or cities (2nd level)...

I think linking to site map would be a direct way to bring users to 1 click step to the whole site...
But I'm not sure...