SITEMAP.asp having 10,000 pages

[younus]

A website having more than 10,000 pages, as per the Google Algorithm If I restrict the page links to 100 for sitemap.asp then I have to generate 100 pages, any idea to shorten the process. Please advice.

[rasmusbang]

I have a site with 100K pages and our sitemap has about 100 entries I think.

In my opinion you should not shorten the process. It is important to do it correctly, and it depends on the site at hand.

Now, I do not now which website this is regarding, so hard to give advice about a specfic case.

But what I would do is include the home page and all navigational sections (sub section indexes). Other than that include the most important pages for your company and the central ones which change often.

These things you probably already know. I have not heard of quick way of just making a sitemap for a large site. It requires attention. But i guess, that if you really want to do it quickly and really do not want to put in the effort and thaught to make quality sitemap you could probably just take the 100 most visited pages for your site in the last year. In their you should find the most important pages?

Regards,

Rasmus

[KeriMorgret]

I just want to verify that you're talking about a sitemap for the users, and not the xml sitemap for the search engines to crawl. The sitemap for the search engines can have 50,000 entries in a sitemap, per the specifications at http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html.

One example Ryan Kent likes to use is Verizon's sitemap at http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/sitemap.jsp. They don't have every one of their pages listed, but you can easily find what you are looking for via their sitemap.