Comments on: Never bury your optimized content – and about styles of burying http://www.dangerous-thinking.com/2008/07/24/never-bury-your-optimized-content-and-about-styles-of-burying/ David Rosam's Blog. If I can't fit it in a Tweet, it goes in here! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Rosam http://www.dangerous-thinking.com/2008/07/24/never-bury-your-optimized-content-and-about-styles-of-burying/#comment-397 David Rosam Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:00:00 +0000 http://dangerous-thinking.com/?p=1031#comment-397 @Clive Walker I'd say that the sitemap is there to get the content properly spidered; what we've seen is on a site that is properly spidered according to Google Webmaster Tools. So, I'd say spidering isn't the issue. The sitemap does one other thing. It shows the spiders the layout of the site, of course so with or without the sitemap, the search engines are aware of how deeply the content is buried. That means, I think, that the sitemap has no effect on what we've observed. @Clive Walker

I’d say that the sitemap is there to get the content properly spidered; what we’ve seen is on a site that is properly spidered according to Google Webmaster Tools.

So, I’d say spidering isn’t the issue.

The sitemap does one other thing. It shows the spiders the layout of the site, of course so with or without the sitemap, the search engines are aware of how deeply the content is buried.

That means, I think, that the sitemap has no effect on what we’ve observed.

]]> By: Clive Walker http://www.dangerous-thinking.com/2008/07/24/never-bury-your-optimized-content-and-about-styles-of-burying/#comment-396 Clive Walker Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:12:06 +0000 http://dangerous-thinking.com/?p=1031#comment-396 How is this affected by a sitemap page? Surely, with a sitemap page, the route to the optimised page would be Home -> Sitemap -> Optimised Page? [assuming that the Optimised Page is linked on the sitemap page]. Or are you describing a situation where there is no sitemap page? How is this affected by a sitemap page? Surely, with a sitemap page, the route to the optimised page would be Home -> Sitemap -> Optimised Page? [assuming that the Optimised Page is linked on the sitemap page]. Or are you describing a situation where there is no sitemap page?

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