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Tip: Use Hyperlinks in a Sitemap

filed under Design by rob on 12Jan07 @ 11:57 am EST

Sitemaps are good. They can serve two purposes:

to help users understand and navigate the basic structure to your site
to help search engines know what is most important on your site to index

So if you create one, don’t do what some do. Make sure each item actually links to something! If you don’t, you just have a table of contents suitable for a book, not a sitemap for a website.

Also try out Google Sitemaps for auto-updating of web content.

2 Responses to “Tip: Use Hyperlinks in a Sitemap”

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1 Greg on Jan 12th, 2007 said:

I see I’m not the only one who reads “This Is Broken”. Yea, I thought that one was pretty funny too! Not “ha ha” laugh-out-loud funny, but shake my head “I can’t believe they’d do that” funny.
2 Sheldon Kotyk on Jan 13th, 2007 said:

Informal survey, anyone here browse via sitemap or only as a last resort?