2 SEO No Brainers

**operaentre** · 08-21-2008 03:21 AM

I think you don't know exactly what is SEO and how Google works. Site map is totally different it is not at all related to keywords. If you have site map the crawling of your site becomes more easy and the only data you want to show to google can only be visible not the other data. OK...

**flnazrael** · 08-21-2008 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by operaentre

If you have site map the crawling of your site becomes more easy and the only data you want to show to google can only be visible not the other data. OK...

That is not true. Sitemaps are an inclusion protocol, not an exclusion. Robots.txt, and sometimes meta robots tags, are the only way to keep content publicly viewable but stop it from being indexed.

Please read the thread.

**operaentre** · 11-18-2008 01:02 AM

Now a days SEO became very popular and using site maps in website became very useful.

**Yiie** · 11-23-2008 10:29 PM

Definitely need to submit another Google sitemap...

**jackfranklin** · 12-03-2008 07:18 AM

You have provided a lot of information regarding google site maps. Its really intresting. Can you provide more information regarding spammers. What are the different techniques for not getting spammed while doing sitemaps.

**SerialEntrepreneurs.** · 12-10-2008 10:09 PM

Also remember to use the SEO friendly plug-in so your WordPress entries are static SEO friendly page names instead of dynamic, ?id=76

Hope this helps.....

**jackfranklin** · 12-16-2008 03:36 AM

A sitemap is just as the word suggests, a map of the entire website. From a sitemap page you are not far from any of the numerous pages on the site with a single or may be two clicks. It is a very convenient navigational structure.

**katev** · 12-23-2008 01:55 PM

It looks very interesting the information you provide in here, from this kind of discussions I got informed about good thinks. Thanks guys.

**Jenie0109** · 02-06-2009 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by flnazrael

Personal experience with sitemaps vary (there are some discussions out there where people have had the opposite results that you reported.)

And, like I said...if you have a clean, search engine friendly site structure, the bots will get the structure anyway. An XML sitemap can be a Band-Aid over a bad design, but it doesn't fix much.

Anyone - whether you're a spammer or have a legitimate website, can create an XML sitemap. So Google is not going to magically give you a huge boost because you too have one. And anyone can generate a sitemap where each URL is tagged as highly important, crawl frequently, etc...it's like a meta keyword tag that everyone abuses, why is Google going to give very much weight to that?

Google has started allowing people to add KML format geodata to sitemaps, which is actually worth the trouble of doing if you have a brick and mortar or are targeting a certain region. So I'll say that to be positive.

Really informative about doing an xml sitemap