Sitemaps

Can I see a good example of a sitemap? Anyone know a good one?

You can find a lot of code snippets here : http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html

K, thanks, anyone got any other sitemaps. Prehaps one they made or use?

I've created a php and MySQL based website navigation-menu script which I re-use in most of the websites I create. You can check it out and download it at http://phpmnu.bugfix.nl/ If you add an item to the menu called 'Sitemap' it will open up all sub and sub-sub categories in the menu. One of my clients that has the php.mnu loaded with items is http://www.savinglittlehearts.com/

go to justinlove.net and click site map in the top link bar.. theres the way php fusion writes them.. but otherwise, u can write them on your own, or search on google for "sitemap generator", and there are free services which will write xml versions of your site. heres a good one:

http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/

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Hey meth0d this is not a google sitemap. This is a simple sitemap for your visitors.

Check this : https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html

www.mercury.theicy.net/sitemap.xml

There's mine; I don't know how useful it is.

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i have google and yahoo sitemaps as well, .xml and urllist.txt

Wow, I didn't know sitemaps had protocols.  I thought they were HTML files that mapped out your site in Directory format.

Kinda cool.

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Sitemaps are XML files. What you mean by protocols ?

Oh man.... "protocol" is just a word I was uing in general. 

It just means "A standard way of doing things."

For instance, spy movies have spy-contact protocols like this:

SPY: "Nice weather we're having"
CONTACT: "Yes, but I hear it's going to rain cats & dogs"
SPY: "Then I better watch out for poodles"
CONTACT: *hands him a note with intel*

It's just a standard. 

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Oh. Now I got it.

ya google sitemaps may be xml files but user-friendly sitemaps usually php or html for easy navigation

hmm i dont want to sound noobish...but what good is a site map? Easier for Bots to index pages is all i can think of?

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This is one I have... http://directory.wineography.com/sitemap.htm

If you are looking to make one for users to navigate through, you need to make it clear that certain pages are sub pages. I have used arrows in mine. Just listing all the pages doesn't make it any easier for the user.

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