Thursday, September 18, 2008

Submit a “site map” page or a page with links to all inner pages

Submit a “site map” page or a page with links to all inner pages


One good tip is that you should prepare a crawler page (or pages) and submit this to the

search engines. This page should have no text or content except for links to all the



important pages that you wished to be crawled. When the spider reaches this page it

would crawl to all the links and would suck all the desired pages into its index. You can

also break up the main crawler page into several smaller pages if the size becomes too

large. The crawler shall not reject smaller pages, whereas larger pages may get bypassed

if the crawler finds them too slow to be spidered.



You do not have to be concerned that the result may throw up this “site-map” page and

would disappoint the visitor. This will not happen, as the “site-map” has no searchable

content and will not get included in the results, rather all other pages would. We found

the site wired.com had published hierarchical sets of crawler pages. The first crawler

page lists all the category headlines, these links lead to a set of links with all story

headlines, which in turn lead to the news stories.

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