Sitemap in the footer with internal products/catogory links

[Dreamgame2016]

Im trying to make intern links for SEO of an webhsop (magento). If I use sitemap in the footer and in the sitemap you will see link brands-categorie and products (linked to a another internal product page). I will use more then 5000 products and brands catogerie). Will it influance positive in Google Rank?

[Dreamgame2016]

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[CleverPhD]

Short answer - no.   It is true that Google looks at your internal link structure to see what the most important pages are on your site. So, if you have a link in your footer that is on every single page of the site, you are telling Google that this is an important page for your site.

That is only half the equation.

If the page you link to is a sitemap (a page with a bunch of internal links on it) then this will help Google find and crawl those pages, but since the sitemap is simply a list of links, it will not rank for anything etc.

The sitemap is simply a tool to help Google find all the pages on your site. It does not mean those pages will rank well. If you want a page to rank well, you have to have good content on it and also good external links to it (to keep this point simple).

If this is an HTML sitemap that you have setup, I would suggest also setting up an XML sitemap on your site and submitting that via Google Search Console.  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en  You can then not only help Google further crawl your site, but Search Console gives you feedback on if there are any errors in the XML sitemap and what your ratio is of pages that Google finds in the XML sitemap to how many Google has indexed.

[Dreamgame2016]

Thanks, im going to build sitemap via excel, with replacement methodes.. Its good for de SEO after all!