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angshujit
Mar 1st 2007, 2:03 am
Hi,
I am very much new in SEO and sitemap. Is sitemap created with xml helps search engines to search my site? If so, theny why?

Angshujit
ThomasSchulz
Mar 11th 2007, 5:26 am
They are created to help search engines index your website. However, sitemaps can probably not help you in rankings. You can perhaps influence which page from your domain is hown in SERPs by modifying xml sitemap priority (http://www.micro-sys.dk/developer/articles/xml-sitemap-priority-tag.php) values
hhheng
Mar 29th 2007, 4:47 am
Sitemap will only guide the spider to crawl your internal pages, nothing else.
www.mazoo.co.uk
Mar 30th 2007, 12:32 pm
I heard that creating a sitemap will cause google to just read the sitemap and not crawl your site, but in my own experience this is not true. if you are looking for a free tool to help create a sitemap check out gsitecrawler.
horisly
Apr 1st 2007, 6:02 am
I heard that creating a sitemap will cause google to just read the sitemap and not crawl your site, but in my own experience this is not true. if you are looking for a free tool to help create a sitemap check out gsitecrawler.

"I heard that creating a sitemap will cause google to just read the sitemap and not crawl your site"

it's absolutely wrong.
if that true,no one will use sitemap anymore.