Nope, I've heard they don't really help you out much.

You need more options on this poll! I have sitemaps on a couple of my sites but not most of them. I also use the google sitemaps site to track the indexing/spidering of my site but not necessarily have a sitemap on those sites.

i have yet to use sitemaps. I have a large forum with over 100,000 pages, is sitemaps a possibility at that point?

I have sitemaps for all my sites and use the Google Sitemap to trakc them

I use them

I pretty much only use it for vBulletin forums.

Of course I use sitemaps. Sitemaps have helped me immensly on getting many of my subpages listed.

:dots: So i think the mejority of web master or SEO people use Sitemap for their website they are working on.

But is there any script for PHP, script for ASP or ASP.NET or script for JSP or HTML to generate sitemap? I have dynamically created sitemap using ASP.NET by coding in C#. I would like to now asny specify script for any of the above?:001_rolleyes:

I used google sitemap on a couple of my sites, but removed it.

Originally Posted by Haimadan

:dots: So i think the mejority of web master or SEO people use Sitemap for their website they are working on.

But is there any script for PHP, script for ASP or ASP.NET or script for JSP or HTML to generate sitemap? I have dynamically created sitemap using ASP.NET by coding in C#. I would like to now asny specify script for any of the above?:001_rolleyes:

I don't know about any of that, but I used GSiteCrawler by SoftPlus to make all of mine.

I use google XML sitemaps on ALL my sites. HTML site on sites which dont have full linking by the second level.

I only use Google Sitemaps when a site gets into supplemental. I change URL's, do some other changes and create a Google sitemap. It usually works and after a month or two I remove the sitemap.

I use regular sitemaps when I need to get doorway pages indexed or if I want to vary the anchor texts of ingoing links to my subpages.

Originally Posted by jooles

Do you have a sitemap for each of your sites? If so, how did you create it?

Yes I do. I use this resource: http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com/

would sitemaps help improve my re-indexing when I change a url scheme? Ie - remove the .html or use /foo/to/path instead of /bar/to/path?

I've noticed since I changed my wordpress slug, my traffic went way down.

I always use an "internal" sitemap on all my sites. As far as using the Google sitemaps program... I have before, but haven't seen much benefit from it. The most important thing is just to make sure that every page in your site can be reached in under 4 or 5 clicks from the homepage.

If google promotes it, then I will use it, not to do so is sheer lunacy.

And, as a by-product, you receive useful statistics.

I recommend Wordpress with the

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/...rator-v2-final

plug-in for both blog enhanced and blog-only sites.

Originally Posted by j-weezy

The most important thing is just to make sure that every page in your site can be reached in under 4 or 5 clicks from the homepage.

That's very dependent on your link popularity. 4 or 5 clicks could be too far away. Also 10 clicks away isn't a problem on a website with lots of link love ;-)

Google Sitemaps Love or Hate

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/7387

I have never used a sitemap.

Originally Posted by stefanjuhl

That's very dependent on your link popularity. 4 or 5 clicks could be too far away. Also 10 clicks away isn't a problem on a website with lots of link love ;-)

Excellent point! 4-5 is probably a good average for most sites