How to create a good sitemap for dynamic website

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Published on 2010-07-18T21:25:04Z Indexed on 2011/02/04 7:34 UTC
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I have a website with dynamic content and different kind of pages. I have some pages that rarely change, and I have pages like blogs that change often. The blog pages also have links for sorting, for example sorting on date, asc, desc.

On some of the pages I also have links to different tabbed content, and links that are just anchor links.

Now when I use a xml sitemap generator then all the links are thrown into the site, and so I don't think all the links are really relevant.

The blogposts up until now are also taken into the sitemap. Is this really necessary? I think the links to the blogposts can be indexed just fine.

Is the best way to make a sitemap just to manually assign the main menu links to the sitemap, or is indexing everything really recommended?

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