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raad2005



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:38 pm    Post subject: Site Map Reply with quote
Is the site map necessary to the web site? How?

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jonny361



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A sitemap can be 1 of 2 things.

1. A page on your site like the index or contents page in a book with a link to all the pages on your site. Some search engine bots look for a link to a toc.html page on your home page and index all the links from the toc.

Here is an example from my site

http://loans365.net/toc.htm

2. An XML file containing an entry for all the pages on your website. You can register the sitemap.xml file with Google and they will use this to direct the bots to the pages on your site. I would assume other engines will start to use this method over time.

Here is a link to the XML sitemap for my site

http://loans365.net/sitemap.xml

I hope this helps
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Check out this excellent article:

http://www.marketingwords.com/articles/articles_spiderfood.html
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
As well as being useful for search engines, sitemaps can be useful for your human visitors.

You can use well written, tempting descriptions to encourage your visitors to explore your site.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here is a great tool for creating xml, html and txt sitemaps plus easy instructions for uploading it and submitting it to Google.

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com

Handy as heck Cool
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