In a previous post, I received some great advice about helping our local stores get ranked.

Helping our retailers rank in their town

It turns out the best solution was to have a single html page for each store with optimized text, proper META tags, etc.

In order to have them indexed, we need to have all the pages within two clicks of our homepage, (as per our SEO professional). The two stores that we put in the .xml site map, and on our .asp sitemap were indexed and ranked almost immediately, so we know that the page level tactics are working well.

This is a bit of a problem for us, however, as we don't want our competition to be able to go in to the .asp site map, which is linked in the footer of every page of our site, and pull down our entire dealer list in a matter of minutes.

So far, none of the other pages, (except the two mentioned above), have been indexed by Google, even though they all were added to the .xml sitemap, and have been resubmitted. Likely because they are not on the .asp sitemap and therefore not linked internally within the site.

Does anyone have a creative suggestion to solve the problem? Do we absolutely have to put them onto the .asp sitemap in order for them to show up in the organic results?

Chris