The Logic And Use Of Sitemaps For SEO

The Logic And Use Of Sitemaps For SEO

Many webmasters use sitemaps as a way of ensuring that the most important categories and pages of their websites get included within the Google search engines index and can be found by the freshbots / deepbots (now combined into freshdeepbot) of Google. Generally this sitemap is a page linked to directly from the index page of the website (if not from all pages of the site) so that the main pages can be found within 2 clicks from the homepage. This sitemap will have html links (sometimes accompanied by text descriptions other times it is just a catalog of links). Read the rest of the article .

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Great article, Thanks gnorb!

Good Article...

After reading I checked my site log and found that about 3% of my site visitors were turning off javascript support on their browser.

Now since I suppose this 3% is not less, can we use some server side technology instead of javascript, like say CGI redirection, where in I can provide the non-html url version as query string.

Will SE understand it? And even if it does, since it won't have any out going links will it really affect the PR of any page?

Thanks in advance.

Ajit

The article doesnt discuss Java (I dont think lol) maybe I should read what I write but are you discussing my "channeling pagerank" article attached to it? If so you can use a css onclick or flash nav in place of java, css being hte most user friendly seeing as flash has hte same downfall as java, a certain % of users down have flashplayer
Cheers
Hope that helps

Hi SeoGuy,

Sorry for that mis-communication, Yes I was refering "channeling pagerank" article. Well I am not aware exactly how to implement this in CSS, can u show me an example. Second refering to my earlier message about using server side technique instead of Javascript. I mean can I use the foll. cgi code

#!/usr/bin/perl
$query = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
($name, $value) = split(/==/, $query);
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
$FORM{$name} = $value;
print "Location: $FORM{murl}\n\n";

where I can use it like....

http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/abc.c...m/somepage.html

Thks.
Ajit