Site Maps

[OllyBug]

I have noticed that my site map is only showing my sections. I have trawled through the forum and understand that unless I have products on separate pages instead of 10 to 20 on one then I will have to hard code a sitemap to replace the one generated by actinic. Can I simply highlight the section link variable in the design editor for the sitemap, hit delete and copy some link code over. Excuse my ignorance but I am new to this program. Failing this I could replace sitemap.html with a simple blank page with links created in dreamweaver. This is fine as the google bot doesn't care about aesthetics. Either way, how would I create the link to each product ? I realise i could copy the URL generated by doing an actinic search of the product but this is really messy. My site is at www.homescentherbs.co.uk
(not a great shop but I havent got much time to create my own theme!)

Any help would be great with this matter. We sell herb plants and for example, we sell several species of mint. I have the mint placed on pages M page 1, page 2 etc with the parent section being 'Herbs M'. I want to point the site map link to each individual mint inside these pages. I realise that i could just type the mints out and link them all to their parent page (Herbs M) but would google recognise this and show the 'googler' the particular mint they wanted in the search result.

Cheers

Olly

[Duncan Rounding]

In your case with so many herbs groups together - to help the SEs I would create a fragment that contains some information about all the herbs in each section at the top of that section.

I didn't see a link to your sitemap on your pages - that would also be a good recommendation.

You could get hold of a sitemap generator (Google for one) and then link to it. You would also be wise to add a google sitemap to the sitre as well and submit that to Google and MSN.

[jont]

Don't forget that a section in Actinic = a page on the internet. Sitemaps only link to pages (sections) and not items on a page.

Taking a peek at your site your page names are not doing you any justice IMHO in terms of SEO. Eg Herbs_A.html is not really that strong for keywords. You can have a different section name to the actual page name .. when creating a new section I always enter the "section-name-like-this" which then creates "section-name-like-this.html" ... and then I go back and rename the section name to "Normal Name".

Whilst I appreciate you have 10 different "A" herbs on a page I would be inclined to include the most popular in the page name eg: "aloe-vera-herbs.html" to give much more impact with the search engines.

HTH

[OllyBug]

Thanks guys I will take the help on board and do some changes over the weekend. I put most of the site up too quickly and without much thought on the section titles. I will ammend them ASAP.

[Salahuddin]

googlebots

Oliver, I would appreciate your help with some website design if you are free at all.