Dumps QuestionsNov 15
A search engine gets the links of the website from the sitemap. So every search engine expects some sort of sitemaps in websites.People may be aware of two commonly used sitemaps (XML sitemap and HTML sitemap) but our idea is to have four site maps.
1. XML Sitemap
3. Text Site map (different approach which works!)
4. Feeds (An indirect XML site map)
4 Important Site maps
Initially XML site map where given more value, now Google expects the webmasters to update the site map regularly. So don’t generate the XML site map with online generator because it is very easy to generate the XML site map using PHP. And you can run the code once a day or once week to get the updated sitemap. PHP code for xml sitemap can be obtained from our other post.
HTML sitemap were used be .gov and .edu sites, and html sitemap got more importance, because html sitemap has an added advantage where we can modify the anchor text. Anchor text will help us to get good SERP rank. So a print view or Low Fi version of vbulletin will act as html sitemap. Try to generate xml sitemap, without any styles.
Txt sitemap or Text sitemap also gets some importance, because Google reads text files too. So why do you miss that, create a text file with all your links
Feeds as sitemap will help you to get your pages indexed quickly. Because feeds are generated once the new post is written. So google is reading feeds more these days, and if you are writting good posts (not copied) will make your blog or site more worth. Google is giving more importance to these websites.
It is also important you follow some conventions with sitemaps.
1. Try to have sitemap pages with 100 links only, more than 100 link can be considered as spam
2. Check there is no 404 error pages
3. Give correct priority in xml sitemap. If you give same or high priority to all links. Google will skip that tags and it will consider its own priority.
