Site Map important?

[pjw1187]

Hey I am kind of new to the whole SEO stuff and have been reading a good bit about how to get indexed and everything by search engines. Do sitemaps help a whole lot? My current website is wwwDOTwatchandtryDOTcom. Its a wordpress website, so are there any good tools/plugins that could create the sitemap for me? Thanks in advance.

[primal21]

I would consider a site map very important when it comes to Google and would recommend that you take the time to generate one for the bots to follow. Adding one would not only help with your indexing but also it tends to speed it up amongst other things.

There is a free program that generates an xml site map that works with Google. Just ftp it to the root of your site and in Google webmaster tools tell Google where the site map is and what it is called in the sitemap area for your site. It is as simple as that. Within a few hours or so the site map will be detected and it will be used in any crawl that Googlebot does in the future.

Unfortunately I have less than 25 posts so I am unable to post the link at present so my attempt at being helpful has fallen foul of the rules. Send me a PM and I will try to send it on to you.

Regards

Rob

[TryUsOut]

Submitting a sitemap to Google would be beneficial in how your site gets indexed.

Its a manner of presenting your site to the SE's

[bicycle2000]

Originally Posted by TryUsOut

Submitting a sitemap to Google would be beneficial in how your site gets indexed.

Its a manner of presenting your site to the SE's

how about submit our site map to yahoo ?
can this improve ranking in yahoo

[primal21]

Originally Posted by bicycle2000

how about submit our site map to yahoo ?
can this improve ranking in yahoo

As far as I am aware Yahoo does not have an API or sandboxing mechanism on a par with Google so improving ranking is quite difficult. This directory is a human edited directory but they do have a pay per click avenue that by all accounts is not only expensive but also hard to get in.

New sites on Yahoo have managed to rank well through good page links rather than a large quantity of pages, unless you have a large number of products that are on strong keyworded pages, but will start to fall as newer sites start appearing.

I can't say that getting on to Yahoo is entirely important nor worth the worry compared to the results that may or may not some back. If you have products to sell then perhaps froogle is worth looking at, but for a whole site, in my honest opinion, it is not worth the heartache.

The basics are that Yahoo! Directory will use the title from your submission and compare it to your business name in the "About Us" section of your site and also the whois info. Make sure that your business name matches with how you want to be listed. Use DMOZ to add your site to the correct category or categories and wait for someone to review it.

[bicycle2000]

Originally Posted by primal21

As far as I am aware Yahoo does not have an API or sandboxing mechanism on a par with Google so improving ranking is quite difficult. This directory is a human edited directory but they do have a pay per click avenue that by all accounts is not only expensive but also hard to get in.

New sites on Yahoo have managed to rank well through good page links rather than a large quantity of pages, unless you have a large number of products that are on strong keyworded pages, but will start to fall as newer sites start appearing.

I can't say that getting on to Yahoo is entirely important nor worth the worry compared to the results that may or may not some back. If you have products to sell then perhaps froogle is worth looking at, but for a whole site, in my honest opinion, it is not worth the heartache.

The basics are that Yahoo! Directory will use the title from your submission and compare it to your business name in the "About Us" section of your site and also the whois info. Make sure that your business name matches with how you want to be listed. Use DMOZ to add your site to the correct category or categories and wait for someone to review it.

oh~ thanks for answering my question
I'm still considering is that worth to paid for yahoo directory
affiliate site possible listed in DMOZ?

[NGB_Vero]

Originally Posted by bicycle2000

oh~ thanks for answering my question
I'm still considering is that worth to paid for yahoo directory
affiliate site possible listed in DMOZ?

Hi,

Yahoo doesn't accept affiliate sites into their directory. Though listing there really helps achieving high SERP positions.

As for DMOZ... it contains links to affiliate sites. but how hard I tried, none of my aff sites was listed there.

[TryUsOut]

Spending that much $$$ for a single directory inclusion for an affiliate link is better spent in other forms of marketing and promotion IMO.

[The Quite Guy]

Place a sitemap link on yor index. I don't like submitting to the serps unless you have landing pages which aren't listed on your site map on your site.

If that makes sense

[NotdoxJ]

Submitting a site isn't necessary any longer if you have a site map with pages interlinked.

[Moonface]

you can track how google views your site map using the google webmasters tool.
DO a search for it - its free to use, varify your account and you are away.