How Do I Create Multiple Pages In HTML Sitemap?
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I'm working on an html sitemap for our ecommerce site and want to limit the links on each page to less than 100. I've created an article for the initial page, but what is the proper way to go to the next page?
Do I create another article page (and so on and so on) until I have the sitemap completed? If so, how do I link from one page to the next?
Would my on page text read: "sitemap continued" with anchor text on the link "sitemap page 2.."?
It seems like all the sitemaps I've seen just fill one page with links and very little regard for "link saturation" and continuous pages.
Thanks!
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I'm listing categories and sub-categories in it. If I wanted to create another page, what is the best practice for doing that?
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100 links is certainly not a hard and fast rule, and there are times when it does make sense to use more links on a page. Ryan Kent is fond of Verizon's sitemap at http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/sitemap.jsp. They have a comprehensive site map, but don't necessarily list every single page on their site map either.
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I hope somebody else chimes in. However, I do believe that the suggested 100 links is a good rule, it isn't always applicable for every page. In the case of a homepage, I believe it is perfectly acceptable to have more then 100 links as it is a primary landing page.
If you read the suggestions from the On-page Analysis tool it does concede the point of it being okay to have more then 100 links but no more then 300. Which makes sense, some of the Wikipedia pages have ump-teen-million links and still rank very well.
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