Do You really need a sitemap

Mark Maunder
Feedjit Founder & CEO ,

Do you really need a sitemap?


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welcome back after a brief ,

hiatus to the Daily Feed.


There's a great question, which is really an observation on
webmasters.stackexchange.com that points out that sitemaps for your
blog or website are probably unnecessary. The argument is that
sitemaps are supposed to help web crawlers like Googlebot find pages
that aren't linked to on your site. But if pages aren't linked to by
anyone, they won't have any pagerank and won't appear in the search
results anyway. So the proper way to ensure Google indexes all pages
on your site is to ensure you have a healthy link structure and that
all pages have another page on your site linking to them.

InformationIsBeautiful.net has a fun diagram showing who is suing who
in the telecoms industry. Be thankful you're not part of that
dogfight.

If your data is living in the cloud, Amazon have reduced their prices
for data storage on S3. At Feedjit, we buy our servers and amortize
them over 3 years because it's more cost effective that way. If you're
looking for cheap hosting, check out Linode.com (my personal favorite)
or Slicehost.com for an entry level Linux server.

Finally, today's award for toughest bloke ever goes to this chap who
saved a woman from a great white shark in Australia by grabbing the
shark by the tail - and then refused to speak to the press about it.

I'll be publishing the Daily Feed on a daily schedule once again for
the rest of this week. Have a spectacular week!

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