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Sitemap Structure

There are some rules to creating an effective sitemap that need to follow:

Sitemap must only be linked to from homepage and no other page. Why? We want the search engine spiders to find this link directly from our homepage and follow it from there. Our sitemap MUST NOT be linked to from every other page of our site. Also from a Google PageRank point of view only linking to our sitemap from our homepage can also "funnel" PR quickly to pages all over our site.

If you have large website of lots of pages. So, you will limit the number of pages listed on our sitemap to a maximum of 50. This is to prevent our sitemap from being misinterpreted as a link farm by the search engines.

How should we structure our sitemap?

The following tips must be adhered to in order for our site to gain the maximum possible benefit from having a sitemap.

1. The title of each sitemap link should be keyword rich and link directly back to the original page.

2. Include 10 - 20 words of text from the original page of content underneath the relevant sitemap link. This creates more content for search engine spiders and human visitors can see exactly what each page is about in advance of clicking.

3. Ensure that the look and feel of our sitemap page is consistent with the rest of our site. Use the same basic HTML template we used for every other page of our site.