sitemap.htm:
The sitemap is a critical page in terms of
search engine listings. When a search engine comes to your
website, the first page it spiders is the index.htm page.
From the index page, a search spider will follow any text
links to locate the remaining pages in your website.
If you don’t have a page linked from the index page, it may
be found if it’s linked from another web page that is linked
from the index page.
This may not always be practical. And search engine spiders
may or may not complete a deep scan of your site, meaning
pages buried deep in the site may not be found.
You can use the sitemap page to ensure that ALL pages that
you want located by the search engines are indexed by the
search spider.
And it’s easy!
Make sure the sitemap.htm page is linked to from the
index.htm page (by default, the top link bar, bottom link
bar, vertical menu bar, and the icon bar all include a link
to the sitemap.htm page)
On the sitemap.htm page, add a text link to each page in
your website that you want the search engines to know about.
Make the links organized and easy to read. Humans will be
reading this list too. Create a ‘Category’ heading to group
pages in a list. Example:
Company Information:
about_us.htm
contact_us.htm
Product Information
catalog.htm
faqs.htm
Service Information
services.htm
privacy.htm
Just an example of how to organize information even if it’s
a small amount of information.
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