Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:14 am Post subject: About Sitemaps
A question about sitemaps.
Martell seems to just link to the sitemap from the homepage of a site. Most seo stuff I've been reading lately says that the sitemap should be on every page of a site to make it easier for your vistors to get to any page from any page on a site and so that the sitemap builds pr.
How do people deal with the sitemap issue? Every page or only the homepage? What is a better strategy in terms of seo? If you put the sitemap on every page it seems it would build a lot of pr which it could distribute (evenly?) to whatever is on the SM. I guess it would also be helpful to allow visitors to find your (hopefully helpful) articles from anywhere in the site.
Any thoughts?
One other question - not related to sitemaps.
Do you guys put affiliate links at all on your article pages? I don't mean at the bottom of the article, more like on the side say under your menu in an include. This way the changing of the affiliate link (should it need to be changed) across a hundred articles is not an issue since you just change the ssi include and all is done. I'm thinking though that maybe a little pr is lost to the afffiliate link and maybe it's just best to keep the articles linking only to the product pages with no affiliate links on them.
I'm no expert, but my understanding is to put
the sitemap only on the home page.
Your homepage usually has the highest pr
which will go to the sitemap, which then goes
to all your pages. There is no need to put
it on other pages. If you do your only diluting
the pr that goes back to your product pages.
Plus you really want your visitors to go to
your product pages, not all your article pages.
They come in through the article pages then go
to your product pages then hopefully to your
merchant.
I keep my merchant links on my product
pages. SBI's system puts affiliate links on
tier 2 and tier 3 pages. Your choice both can
be used. Depends what system you choose.
Your homepage usually has the highest pr
which will go to the sitemap, which then goes
to all your pages.
Quote:
SBI's system puts affiliate links on
tier 2 and tier 3 pages. Your choice both can
be used. Depends what system you choose.
This is one aspect of the SBI method that I like (a lot)...
You definitely need a sitemap for the SEs to follow, but do you really want to "waste" PR on a conventional "list of pages" that probably won't rank highly itself, even if you did want it to?
The SBI way gets round this dilemma while still recognising the power of "hubs" in the Google algo...
The tier 2 pages are like a set of mini, themed sitemaps - each linked from the homepage - but they are also content pages, in their own right.
This is an excellent way of combining "hubs", sitemaps and relevant, rankable content pages all into one...
They're so good, even humans like them.
Hope this helps,
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