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Old 04-24-2008, 12:45 PM Site Map
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My boss wants me to make a site map and he thinks it would be good to have EVERY link... Is it more important to have every page or a helpful, well organized guide?

Do people really use site maps or is it mostly for Google PR?
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Old 04-24-2008, 02:36 PM Re: Site Map
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Yes, people use site maps, and it's NOT just for Google PR.

CoffeeCup software has a FREE Google Sitemap Generator that's easy to use.
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Old 04-24-2008, 02:56 PM Re: Site Map
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So, what format do we use for the sitemap? I found an app that does site maps, and it will save as a .site or export to a different file type for Google. I thought it would be html myself. And then we would place a link to it?
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Old 04-24-2008, 02:58 PM Re: Site Map
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Actually I believe Google prefers an XML sitemap, but you can do it in HTML.
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Old 04-24-2008, 05:12 PM Re: Site Map
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There are two sorts of sitemaps -- one for your users and one for the spiders. The XML one is for the spiders. The HTML one is for your users (though the spiders will crawl it also). I would make the HTML one easy to navigate if you go along that path.

Personally, I have an HTML one AND and XML one and I think that's the best way to do it if it's easy for you to set up.
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Old 04-25-2008, 08:33 AM Re: Site Map
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Check out this tool: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ It'll make you a sitemap in multiple formats.
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Old 04-25-2008, 09:14 AM Re: Site Map
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So what is the .site file I got out of PowerMapper? Is that used for anything?
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Old 04-25-2008, 06:43 PM Re: Site Map
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What's inside the .site file? Personally, I've never heard of such a thing.
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Old 04-25-2008, 07:31 PM Re: Site Map
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I'd never heard of it either, but that is nothing new for me. It looked pretty in the program. And aren't you supposed to be on vacation?
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Old 04-26-2008, 10:45 PM Re: Site Map
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I use sitemaps a lot, they do help and are needed a lot when setting up the google stuff. But yea always nice to make one.
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Old 05-02-2008, 04:29 AM Re: Site Map
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Yse ,site maps is nessery
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Old 05-02-2008, 07:09 AM Re: Site Map
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I always generate sitemap from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ it easy and quick
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Old 05-02-2008, 08:06 AM Re: Site Map
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sitemap is not for PR but for better indexing of your site. You are helping search engine bots to easily find your internal pages.
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