What's the best method for segmenting HTML sitemap?
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Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone can help me. Currently I'm trying to set up a HTML sitemap for our website and am having trouble with the 500+ pages of content under each category. How do you segment your HTML sitemap in a case like this, keeping in mind the less than 100 links per page rule? For example, http://www.careerbliss.com/salary/ allows our users to search salaries under company, job title, and location. You can imagine how many thousands of pages we need to represent.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
Reyna
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The goal of a HTML sitemap is to help users locate content on your site. Providing a list with thousands of links is not the way to achieve that goal.
An example site map to look at: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/sitemap.jsp
The VerizonWireless site offers thousands of pages. Notice when examining their site map you will find a "cell phones" link, but you don't see links for Samsung, Motorola or other phone manufacturers. A user who is looking for a cell phone can select the "cell phones" link then locate a manufacturer from that page.
I recommend mapping out your main category pages along with any pages of special interest, then consider your HTML sitemap complete.
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