I recently submitted my sitemap to google (after 3 tries it had no errors, yay)
i only included about 7 pages ( i have 6 pages and a forum) ive included the forum link in the site map, should i include some links to important posts or topics on forum? should i fill up my sitemap with as many links as possible?
if my sitemap doesnt contain a link, will that link not be crawled?
It is a good idea to put all your categories in your sitemap.
If you use a service like xml-sitemaps.com then they will create a xml sitemap for you. All you need to fill in is your website address
The problem with forums is that large and popular forums like Digitalpoint, Sitepoint, Daniweb etc. have 100 000s of posts. Imagine a sitemap with 100 000s of posts in it.
I would say create sitemap manually with just categories