: Which kind of public sitemap should I build for a search based navigation site I have a search based navigation web-site. Each query has filters as well as sort-by. The search results point
I have a search based navigation web-site. Each query has filters as well as sort-by. The search results point to end-pages inside the site. Each of those pages has many outlinks to other end-pages. Currently I have a XML sitemap which directs crawlers to all the end pages. I'm trying to add a silo sitemap directory to improve SEO. Assuming this is the right direction I have a couple of options:
end pages sorted alphabetically.
Pages by major search filters, and then divide alphabetically.
Pages for every filter and cross option between them and the sort-by.
Which would you recommend and why?
NOTE: I'm not referring to a XML sitemap.
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I wasn't quite sure if you're referring to an XML sitemap that you submit to Google via the Webmaster tools or a public sitemap that is included within your page.
For XML sitemaps, you can provide a <priority></priority> tag that you can denote certain pages to be given higher precedence for search engines to crawl.
None. The order in which URLs appear in a Sitemap, or how they're grouped, doesn't have any known effect for SEO. It also doesn't affect public-facing site maps. The issue of link order on a page is discussed in this video by Google engineer Matt Cutts.
Incidentally, there's a convention that the S in XML Sitemap is capitalised, which helps to avoid the sort of confusion we encountered in the comments.
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