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Site Map

Site Map
  • XML one for bots
  • HTML or image one for humans
  • Help them find what’s not in the main navigation
  • Hierarchy reflects relevance

Site Map

A site map lets the search engine know about the existence of pages it might not have discovered through spidering through your site normally.
Ideally, you should create a normal HTML site map for your users and an XML site map for the search bots. If at all possible, link both.

Distance makes a difference – further from the home page the bigger the click distance the less important it must be.
Hierarchy reflects importance and relevance.

References

From a talk given at the British Library on SEO by Lucidica on March 4th 2010. An IT company based in London.

Links
Lucidica website
lucidica.com



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Further Reading


XML Sitemaps


For an explanation of site maps

Sitemaps.org


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XML Sitemaps


Pretty sitemaps that you can make really quickly for humans or export to XML

Write Maps