Is google indexing recursive?

Brian Huether wrote :
 > I am trying to figure out what to include in my sitemap. Say my main page has
 > 3 links. Now say on page 2, there are 10 other links. Is it sufficient to
 > just have page2 in the sitemap?
 >
 > thanks,
 >
 > brian

I think it depends on what you want the site map for. Is it just for
Google? If so, then I dont think a reliable answer can be given by
anyone here... unless they have insight into what Google will do
next....

I personally think that a site map should contain the entire structure
of a sites menu items and should not contain pages that are not
possible to navigate to manually without going through some kind of
stepped proces. (eg, a page that appears after a succesful online order
or contact post etc)

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Disco Octopus wrote:

 > Brian Huether wrote :
  >> I am trying to figure out what to include in my sitemap. Say my main page
  >> has 3 links. Now say on page 2, there are 10 other links. Is it
  >> sufficient to just have page2 in the sitemap?
  >>
  >> thanks,
  >>
  >> brian
 >
 > I think it depends on what you want the site map for. Is it just for
 > Google? If so, then I dont think a reliable answer can be given by
 > anyone here... unless they have insight into what Google will do
 > next....

If you have 50 sections, each of which has 1,000 pages within it, perhaps
XML'ing everything is a bad idea. You can just include the 50 sections
which will then be traversed entirely and the pages therein will get
covered too.

I don't think the sitemaps have to be complete. I know mine are not.
Sitemaps should be manageable in size. Imagine yourself a world map that
contains the name of each village. You would not be able to spot rivers,
borders, big cities and main roads among the clutter.

 > I personally think that a site map should contain the entire structure
 > of a sites menu items and should not contain pages that are not
 > possible to navigate to manually without going through some kind of
 > stepped proces. (eg, a page that appears after a succesful online order
 > or contact post etc)

I think that one of the next steps for search engines will be the inclusion
of links in the XML. This can make crawling faster and save bandwidth. I
wonder if Google will absorb Technorati one day...

Roy

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Brian Huether wrote

 > I am trying to figure out what to include in my sitemap. Say my main
 > page has 3 links. Now say on page 2, there are 10 other links. Is it
 > sufficient to just have page2 in the sitemap?

Yes, but then it isn't a sitemap.

Google's own site tells you all you need to know in this regard. Very
worthwhile spending a little time reading it.

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No Brian,
For all SE's counts that all relevant pages should be on the sitemap. The
searchengine robot can deside to scan only the index page and the pages it
finds from there at revitits. It is always safer when the link to the
sitemap is on that index or default page. Put also some relevant conent to
each link on the sitemap, otherwise it could look like a linkfram page and
Se's don't like that.

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 > I am trying to figure out what to include in my sitemap. Say my main
page
 > has 3 links. Now say on page 2, there are 10 other links. Is it
sufficient
 > to just have page2 in the sitemap?
 >
 > thanks,
 >
 > brian
 >
 >


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Bill Spots wrote

 > No Brian,
 > For all SE's counts that all relevant pages should be on the sitemap.

Google would disagree with you. But I suppose you know more about them
than they do.


Google only need the index page.

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