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: Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other There is a website and the layout looks something like below: home->approved-> education

@Tiffany637

Posted in: #Seo #Sitemap #UrlRewriting

There is a website and the layout looks something like below:

home->approved->
education entertainment business
| | |
kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult
| | |
and so on.. and so on.. and so on..

home->not approved->
education entertainment business
| | |
kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult
| | |
and so on.. and so on.. and so on..


On homepage, one would see two links - approved and not-approved. Once you click on any of the links, relevant entries will come up and then both pages also have filters on top for further drilling, see above.

Urls are organized like below:

Home/Approved will pull up all entries.
Home/Approved/Education will pull up education only (and so on).
Home/Approved/Education/Kid will pull up educational kid only (and so on).


I am planning to organize my sitemap to have two static parent nodes - approved and not approved, and then add all entries dynamically to the sitemap to these two parent nodes and not include sublevels in sitemap at all.

Do you see any problem/pitfall with this approach - in terms of seo or anything else?

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@Jamie184

Unless I'm missing something, I can't see that any differences between the visual arrangement of your sitemap and the structure of your URLs will have any detrimental effect on SEO, or anything else for that matter. I assume the links in your sitemap will still follow the same URL structure.

Having an alternative navigation structure can only be a good thing IMO.

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