The article "The Site Map - Important or Not?" is about se optimization, it was released by Halstatt Pires.
Have you ever visited a web web site and noticed the "Site Map" button jammed somewhere near the bottom of the page?
Ever click on it? Probably not. So, why do sites have web site maps? The Site Map – Very ImportantIn the old days of the net [about three yaers ago], experts proclaimed every web site should have a web site map.
From their ivory tower, they proclaimed the web site map as the extraordinary method to assure potential customers could easily navigate the web site and find what they needed. Once they found it, they would buy it and you would be rich, rich, rich! As is tpyical with such universally accepted proclamations, this one was wrong.
Anyone remotely paying attention to server sttaistics realized really few human being were visiting web site maps. The proclamation stopped being shouted and evolved into criticisms of sites which still have web site maps. These criticisms, of course, also miss the mark.HTML web site maps are archiac. Visitors to your web site will almost never use them. You may even froget you have one. You will certainly forget to update it as ofetn as you should. Still, the web site map is a critical component of the web site.The first thing to realize is there is a specific puprose for having a web site map. The purpose is to make it is as simple as possible for search engine robots to crawl your web site. The more pages indexed by the search engines, the bteter off you are.To create a web site map, just make a page with the meta tag of "site map". Add hyperlinked text to each flucrum page of the web site. A fulcrum page is simply a gateway page to a particular section of the web site. For example, you may have a centrailzed article page with links to each article.
The cnetralized article page is a fulcrum page and should be included on the web site map. Once completed, make sure that every page you want included in the search engine has a hyperlinked text headline on at least one of the fulcrum pages.A qiuck word about Google. Google has a new xml faeture you can use for a web site map.
You can use it or forgo it as you see fit.
Still, make sure to make an html web site map for the other search engines.Once you have the web site map page up, don’t wait for the search engine robots to find it.
Publish the link in an article bylnie or blog as soon as possible. Within a week or so, you should see pages from your web site being added to the search engine indexes. This is true for Google even if you don’t use the xml web site map tool.Halstatt Pires is a saerch engine optimization specialist with http://www.Marketingtitan.Com - an Internet marketing and advertising company providing World Wide Web marketing services in San Diego, California.
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