Is having this sitemap worthwhile?

[gcdtechnologies]

I know that a sitemap can help SEs to find and index pages, and also deal with canonicalisation issues, but I have a client who is insisting that we build a sitemap containing links to every possible category on a huge ecommerce site.

We already have tabbed modules that allow users to sort by brand, product type, location etc, plus a strong search function that allows them to select multiple options.

I'm worried that a sitemap stuffed with keywords like "Product A by brand B in Location C", "Product A by brand B in Location D" etc. will just seem spammy and do more harm than good.

Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks.

[Cornel_Ilea]

Hi Alice,

If you start with the simple purpose of the sitemaps that you've stated above, (website crawling) you don't need to create** "Product A by brand B in Location C"** and **"Product A by brand B in Location D" **because the product was already indexed by Google.

Will it look spammy? I don't know, it might.

The question is, who ranks better your category/search results pages or product pages?

Cornel