I was reading threadwatch earlier this morning and found this post. Did anyone really faced something serious like this?? if so than i wanna take my sitemap out too.. http://groups.google.com/group/goog...252d0ae045f/16ce136dbf3daf76#16ce136dbf3daf76 Thanx
sitemaps work exactly as advertised lol... That post is just a grumpy person tryin to find something to blame
Lol thanx i myself also didnt faced any problems till now.. but may be due to this rumors i just wanted to clear out myself
But if you have done a good deal of internal linking and your pages gets indexed that can eventually improve your ranking, right?
Even after creating Google Sitemap all the pages of my site are not indexed properly on google, sometime it shows 250 pages and most of the time 3 or 4 pages when i query site:http://www.myurl.com/. And Google Sitemap shows no crawl errors. What you say guys is that still good?
google sitemaps working fine for me. i also tested without site-maps in that case my sites crawls properly. Conclusion is that your site's navigation should be proper and search engine friendly with or without sitemaps. if your content is good then definitely google crawler visit your whole site.
didnt worked for me,used it for months.next to nothing in google,removed two weeks ago and serps are steadily increasing.
They work. Just be careful of what you putting in the xml file. And don't change sitemap file name. I've tried sitemap.xml.gz then I changed to sitemap.xml, then back to .gz version, that was 1 month ago, and googlebot is still trying to get xml version. Stick with one file name, when you change page file names, keep the old ones in the map, just do a 301 redirect for a while. Then remove them from the map, but keep 301 redirects a while longer. You still have to make your site "google" friendly, i.e. a good content/code ratio, javascript and css in separate files, clean links to the rest of the site, validate HTML or XHTML with w3.org validators. Use text based browsers to go through your site, if you can, googlebot will like your site.
Hey, Ever since i submitted my google/yahoo sitemaps they ALWAYS! seem to be on my website constantly i mean should't they only do it every so often? hehe everytime i look at the online list there online Ahh well all good i suppose.
I agree that they at least have zero NEGATIVE effect. BUT - those claiming they work - how can you be sure that its just not a good linking strategy you have? has anyone tested this? If its just good linking strategy, then good, but no need to waste time on sitemaps. On teh other hand, I have had (what I think is because of teh sitemaps) good succeess. by that i mean that new pages got indexed VERY fast (within 1 week max) if I used the sitemap. I added 10 pages over the past 10 days, and not yet updated sitemaps. Still not indexed.
I think, sitemap is still a believe in google crawler. For SEO, maybe what we can do is doing all we can do.
Well one idea is that once google "really" crawled his site via the sitemap, they found something they didn't like. If you are doing anything shady, duplicate content, extra keyphrase loading with a super-high density etc. I would'nt point the gbot to those areas specifically. The sitemap is a big "look at me"... if your site won't stand up to that much scrutiny, then don't shout to come and look! Thoughts?
Have you guys heard anything about a sudden drop in pages though when google first gets your site map? Have heard mixed reviews at times... Do you guys know any good site map creators? Can yahoo and msn read the .xml file or as someone suggested... use urllist.txt... Thanks, Starke
Sure, google's site map is good. I used it with my new site 14 days ago. And now 90% webpages were index by Google. I analized the log file, and find that Google robot get the site map file fist. Then lots of webpages were indexed by Google. Great job has been done by Google.