Site map is important for improving PR in GOOGLE?

August 8th, 2005, 3:53 am

It is said that a site map is needed when optimizes a site. I think so but not sure.

August 8th, 2005, 10:32 am

Sitemap has nothing to do with PR.

PR is all about the amount & quality of pages linking to a given URL. Sitemaps have 0 PR, so they pass on 0 PR.

August 8th, 2005, 3:43 pm

I have the idea that a site with site map should be friendly to spiders. So a site map will affect the feeling of Google.

Right?

August 8th, 2005, 3:47 pm

I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about the Google Sitemaps program.

A regular HTML sitemap, sure it may help pass a LITTLE TINY amount of PR to other pages (that is, people are linking to your sitemap URL).

A sitemap (whether HTML based, or the Google Sitemaps XML file) is only intended to let Google know that pages on your site exist (at least as far as Google's concerned - a HTML sitemap will also help your human visitors too), not to help their PR.

August 10th, 2005, 9:27 am

Sitemap should be used by websites with deep navigation in order to simplify spiders' access to deeper pages.

August 11th, 2005, 5:44 pm

It does not help for PR building but it help in navigation

August 12th, 2005, 3:05 am

What are you folks using to create your site maps?

Do you recommend any particular software for this?

Or, are you creating it by hand?


Bompa

August 12th, 2005, 10:25 am

I'm creating my own scripts to generate the sitemaps real-time from the information in the database.