Sitemap and Link Tag Opinion Question

Every website needs a sitemap to make the search engines happy.

From everything I've read the page shouldn't be anything more than a list of links to the pages of the website.

That said, do you still use the title tag within the anchor tag? Or is bare bones link and link text all that should be on the page?

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I use rss feeds in place of a sitemap, because this works better for MSN (I hope).
and for the anchor tag, if the anchor text is not very related to the target page (or its just an image) I use the title tag, I use also the title tage if the page doesn't have so much content, but be carefull have alway much more real content then content inisde the the titles.

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The sitemap helps search engines decide what keywords are relative to each page.

For example in this site we use the tag system which is a form of sitemap, and I can see better results from search engines with this on.

Now if you want a more general opinion, the key is the interlinking in your site. The sitemap is one thing, but there are other significant things regarding the links to the site (I mean the links that point to pages in the site)

For example the pages that you link from your home page, and the pages that they link to are getting weight. In anyway you should have some kind of menu navigation that points to the most places in the site, and have this in the top of the page.

Nikolas, the tag system, can be submited to google as sitemap? Or it's only for seo in general?

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No in general.

BTW we are not talking about google sitemaps in this thread, but for the regular sitemaps.

I looked at the page you suggested. Google likes that - interesting? Do you also have a sitemap or just the tag list?

Am I correct in assuming the larger the text, the more links? What do you use to generate a page like that? Is it mostly search engine food, or is there a link for humans somewhere I just haven't spotted.

I hope to have every link on every page use the title attribute - didn't do when creating pages. Duh!
Was just wondering if the sitemap page should be fairly bare bones or fully optimized like the rest.

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Do you also have a sitemap or just the tag list?

No I just have the tag list.

Am I correct in assuming the larger the text, the more links?

I think that this is correct.

What do you use to generate a page like that?

If you mean the tag list, it is a custom script that I made for this job.

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