How will it affect on Google if all pages contains a sitemap in the bottom? I can see many sites does that now, but a higher number doesn't.

It's unclear what will and what won't affect Google. Their algorithm is very unique, for sure, and no one knows if adding a sitemap will affect your site in one way or another. However, I would suggest that you add the sitemap to make your site more easily spiderable and to encourage lateral navigation through your site for your users.

Ah well, who cares if it makes the site look crap and confuses real visitors eh!

If it's a link to a sitemap, then fine.

If your site has a few links altogether, then it's fine to include all links in the footer.

If it looks like a link farm, you're in trouble.

I was thinking of something like (with more columns of course) not just a mess of links:

Category
Item
Item

I'm sure you've seen this somewhere else
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It won't damage my position on google? So all I should be aware of is the end user

Originally Posted by Onkel E

How will it affect on Google if all pages contains a sitemap in the bottom? I can see many sites does that now, but a higher number doesn't.

Well having a sitemap on bottom is good because its user friendly but for google you have to create an XML sitemap and submit it to google for quick indexing your all pages as well as it also helps googlebot to frequently crawl your webpages........

Originally Posted by coolslko

Well having a sitemap on bottom is good because its user friendly but for google you have to create an XML sitemap and submit it to google for quick indexing your all pages as well as it also helps googlebot to frequently crawl your webpages........

I know, but I was afraid if Google punished me for having a sitemap on every page

WHAT did you say you say in the VERY first post in this thread???

I can see many sites does that now,

Now, let's apply a little common sense to that statement!

Did you find pages from that site in the google index??




Yes?

And now you have your answer about being "punished"

Having a sitemap that index all your pages is a good thing for Google as they do not need to search for any other webpages in your website.
I guess your question is, whether should you have a link to your sitemap at the bottom of each webpage. I personally have it on my website and it's working fine for me.

Originally Posted by RollinMao

Having a sitemap that index all your pages is a good thing for Google as they do not need to search for any other webpages in your website.
I guess your question is, whether should you have a link to your sitemap at the bottom of each webpage. I personally have it on my website and it's working fine for me.

Your answer is a bit generic. But for what it's worth, I have a user-navigational sitemap that links to all pages on my site (see the tab) and it may work, but I also use an XML sitemap for more search friendliness.

Yea. I normally do not look at the sitemaps but yesterday, after some problem with my sitemap, i decided to find out more about it. It seems like there's a xslt that's converting it to a webpage and looks like another navigation page to me! guess this is another purpose for it.

Originally Posted by nickohrn

It's unclear what will and what won't affect Google. Their algorithm is very unique, for sure, and no one knows if adding a sitemap will affect your site in one way or another. However, I would suggest that you add the sitemap to make your site more easily spiderable and to encourage lateral navigation through your site for your users.

I agree with you... Its hard to know the actions that will and that will not affect Google and other SE. Just Put your site map on all your pages, it wouldnt harm you for sure.