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puiwaihin
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Site map good, site map bad? - 9/3/2002 13:17:47
Please take a look at my site' s home page and tell me if you think including the site map I have at the bottom is a good idea or not. I' m mostly concerned with two things: whether it makes the page more or less attractive, and how it will impact search engine rankings.
Thanks
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RE: Site map good, site map bad? - 9/3/2002 13:33:02
URL?
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RE: Site map good, site map bad? - 9/3/2002 14:46:21
http://www.chinawestexchange.com/
Is this it?
I think it' s a lot of extra stuff for the home page and detracts from it. Not sure about the SE rankings bit.
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RE: Site map good, site map bad? - 9/3/2002 14:49:54
I agree, just too much for home page. I' d prefer a link to it as a page itself
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RE: Site map good, site map bad? - 9/3/2002 23:15:00
IMHO...
Move your index page around and do have the site map on another page. I would suggest:
Learn Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chinese characters online for free
China - West Exchange
then
Welcome to the China West Cultural Exchange!
Click above to enter the main site.
This site is dedicated to helping Westerners learn more about China and its culture online as well as make new friends. There is specific emphasis on Hong Kong and the Canton region, as well as covering mainland China and Taiwan.. There are free language lessons available for Cantonese (Gwongdongwah) and Mandarin (Han Yu) as well as free lessons in Chinese characters. Additionally, there is a dedicated chat room, message board and pen-pal service.
The following pages contain several sound files, and links to dictionaries (Cantonese, and Mandarin), language texts, character flashcards, free software download offers, and other resources. The China West Cultural Exchange is created in the hope that you will be able to find friends, a pen-pal or chat partner to chat with from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, or Singapore.
There is also a section for Chinese speaking people wanting to learn another either the Cantonese or Mandarin dialect, make friends or a pen-pal, and about the West and its language and culture. These pages are written in Chinese characters and will be viewable in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and hopefully the People' s Republic of China. Software is available for download for those without the necessary software.
and last
New Cantonese
Grammar:
Possessives
Vocab:
Animals
Grammar:
Choice-Type Questions
Grammar:
Measure Words
Menu in English
Menu in Chinese Updated Mandarin
Pinyin Charts
If you see garbled characters instead of Chinese, click " View/Encoding/More/Chinese Traditional" in Internet Explorer, or " View/Character Set" in Netscape.
If you do not have a Chinese viewer, you can go to the download page where links are provided to some shareware and trial software.
Last Update:
02 Sep 2002
Visitors since 2000
webmaster@chinawestexchange.com
I would also put a short description full of keywords a few paragraphs after the address. You should pick up the words you want for those that spider top -> bottom, middle, and bottom -> top this way.
You should always aim to get your point across in one screen without scrolling down. It would also be nice to see all the links do the same things and be the same color, as well as have some font type continuity.
Hope that isn' t too much [:j].
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puiwaihin
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RE: Site map good, site map bad? - 9/6/2002 20:43:09
Thanks all for the feedback.
The honest truth is that the whole bottom section of the page is nothing more than an appeal to the search engines for higher rankings. Seems to have worked, too, so I' ve been loathe to mess with it at all. The site map at the bottom of the page was an idea geared towards increasing the amount of search terms that would ring up my site.
It' s pure ego. Even the altruistic part that wants people to benefit from my site still wants people t benefit from MY site. But I gotta toss my ego a few bones now and then, don' t I?
<I' m still hanging around, John, though mostly lurking. Most of the time when I see something I could help with someone has already posted a good solution and all that' s left to say is " Amen" . Gotta love this site!>
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smcfarland
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RE: Site map good, site map bad? - 9/10/2002 11:18:41
If it is all for search engines, then why not submit the index as well as the TOC pages when registering?
Just a thought.
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