Improve Your Rankings with a Sitemap That Works: The HTML - Finishing the HTML

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The rest of the example code for the HTML page is as follows.  Having an articles and information section of your website can help your SEO strategy because it is a good way of getting external sites to link to you in a non-reciprocal kind of way.  This is why I have added it as the second section of the site map:

 
<h1 title="Articles and tutorials concerning mixing, producing, scratching and break dancing">Articles</h1>
<ul>
   <li><a href="http://articles.htm"><h2>Producing Dance Music</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://learnscratching.htm"><h2>Learn to Scratch Like a DMC champion</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://learnbreakdance.htm"><h2>Learn to Break dance and step like the best</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://software.htm"><h2>Using Professional Dance Music Software</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://tutorials.htm"><h2>General Tutorials on DJing </h2></a></li>
 </ul>
&nbsp;

<h1 title="The best DJ equipment including record decks/turntables, mixers, &amp; styluses">Music &amp; DJ Equipment and Accessories</h1>
<ul>
   <li><a href="http://decks.htm"><h2>Record Decks – Technics, Gemini &amp; Vestax</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://mixers.htm"><h2>Mixers – Behringer, Made2Fade &amp; Numark</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://styluses.htm"><h2>Styluses – Stanton, Pioneer &amp; Ortofon</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://lighting.htm"><h2>Lighting – Strobes, &amp; Multibeam Effects </h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://djaccessories.htm"><h2>DJ Accessories – Record boxes, Headphones &amp; Slip Matts</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://media.htm"><h2>Blank Media – Dub Plates, CD’s &amp; Minidiscs</h2></a></li>
 </ul>

<h1 title="Find out where we are and when, and talk to other dance music fans">Social</h1>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://events.htm"><h2>New York Dance Events</h2></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://clubnights.htm"><h2>New York Club and Dance Nights</h2></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://forum.php"><h2>Dance Music Fans Forum</h2></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://scratchbattles.htm"><h2>Scratch Battles</h2></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://tours.htm"><h2>East Coast and National Tours</h2></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://showcasenights.htm"><h2>Showcase and Talent Nights</h2></a></li>
</ul>
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<h1 title="Meet the dance music DJ's and producers affiliated with Rogue Records">Artists and DJ's</h1>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://djdiscobiscuit.htm"><h2>DJ Disco Biscuit</h2></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://dopewax.htm"><h2>Dope Wax</h2></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://dangerousunderground.htm"><h2>Dangerous Undergound</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://lowinmoralfibre.htm"><h2>Low in Moral Fibre</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://djhankz.htm"><h2>DJ Hank Z</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://frankiebeats.htm"><h2>Frankie Beats</h2></a></li>
   <li><a href="http://djsolo.htm"><h2>DJ Solo</h2></a></li>
 </ul>
&nbsp;

<h1 title="All about Rogue Records">Information About Rogue Records</h1>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://history.htm"><h2>History of Rogue Records</h2></a></li>
    <li><a href="http://contactus.htm"><h2>Contact Rogue Records</h2></a></li>
    <li><a href="http://promotion.htm"><h2>Rogue Event Promotion</h2></a></li>
    <li><a href="http://vacancies.htm"><h2>Job Vacancies at Rogue Records </h2></a></li>
  </ul>
  </body>
</html>

So that is most of the HTML done, there will be some more to add once we have created a CSS page to go with it.  If you view the page as it is, you’ll see what browsers that don’t support CSS see.  However plainly, the page still makes sense and still functions.  This is also how a spider would read the page.

Creating a site map in this way is not to be confused with the new application recently unleashed by Google called Google Sitemaps.  This is a fairly recent addition to Google’s repertoire of tools and services and aims at providing site masters with the tools needed to actively help their site get indexed and provide optional information on things like the change frequency and relative importance of each page.  This is an excellent idea because it can increase the speed at which new sites or additions to existing sites are discovered in the vast plethora of data that makes up the Internet.  Basically, you create a site map file in one of the supported protocols and submit it to Google.  A spider is then dispatched to index the site. 

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