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how much link in a xml sitemap per page

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by sinadijaja22, Feb 10, 2008.

  1. #1
    How much links should i use per page in a google .xml sitemap for optimal crawling.
     
    sinadijaja22, Feb 10, 2008 IP
  2. dairyman

    dairyman Notable Member

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    Use not more than 100 links in a page so that the sitemap will not look crowded. If you have more than 100 pages, split it and give the link from the sitemap 1 (containing 100 pages) to the next one and go on like this. It would help to optimize the crawling rate of bots /spiders
     
    dairyman, Feb 11, 2008 IP
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    mecho Active Member

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    Thx dairyman :)

    my question resolved too ...
     
    mecho, Feb 11, 2008 IP
  4. Bohol

    Bohol Peon

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    Sitemap can be as many as 50,000 links. Beyond that, it's no longer good.
    You can create sitemap1, sitemap2, sitemap3...
     
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  5. Sench

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    sinadijaja22, xml sitemap doesn't have pages, I think you confuse it with html sitemap.
    XML sitemaps should be no larger than 10MB and can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. If you have more than 50,000 pages in your web site you should use sitemap index file: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemap_index
     
    Sench, Feb 12, 2008 IP
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    where did you read that 100 was the limit, I have never read that about google sitemaps?
     
    CT SEO, Feb 12, 2008 IP
  7. websitetools

    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    I think perhaps dairyman is talking about HTML sitemaps? (Where 100 is a good suggestion.) While the original poster asked about XML sitemaps.
     
    websitetools, Feb 12, 2008 IP
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    Aryans Well-Known Member

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    Here you guys created big confusion is there any expert who can solve all this ????? please give me proper advice, should we use 100 links on sitemap.html and also 100 links on .xml?? if I have site which have more then 2000 page then what should I do? should I create more then 20 sitemap pages for my site.?

    Regards
    Aryans
     
    Aryans, Feb 12, 2008 IP
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    Greyhound Banned

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    Google Webmaster tool support 50000 lines in one xlm sitemap file.
     
    Greyhound, Feb 12, 2008 IP
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    I am totally agree with my friend that google webmaster tool support 50000 urls in one sitemap.xml file
     
    webmaster2all, Feb 13, 2008 IP
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    webmaster2all, supporting 50000 urls depends on sitemap protocol.
     
    Sench, Feb 13, 2008 IP
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    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    For HTML sitemaps, you may want to check this article about HTML sitemap navigation, it suggests using 100-200 URLs per page. However, XML sitemaps have a much higher limit. The XML sitemaps protocol defines it to 50000 URLs per file... So don't bother splitting your XML sitemap into multiple files when you only have 2000 pages.
     
    websitetools, Feb 14, 2008 IP
  13. sinadijaja22

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    great thanks.I thought so for xml but i haven'tknow for sure
     
    sinadijaja22, Feb 18, 2008 IP
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    Here's what google has to say about the URLS limit & size limit of XML sitemap

    I would recommend to have maximum to 300 URLS in the XML sitemap. The reason is very simple.
    1. It wll have maxium 300*6 = 1800 plus 5 more lines.
    2. Size will be less & can easily be downloaded by search engine
    3. Easy to crawl the sitemap as less number of URLs to crawl.

    So if you have a big website then better to divide it by section wise & create seperate sitemap for each section. Then create sitemap index with all the details of rest other sitemap.
     
    Ann_India, Feb 20, 2008 IP
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    i have a question :

    if i set Max pages in sitemap : 10000 - so each day a new sitemap will be generate with 10000 pages include .so i want to know what would be happen to those old links that will be quit from sitemap day by day ?? and is it good that google see that my sitemap is always 10000 ??

    thanks
     
    mecho, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    Hi Mecho,

    Tell me how big your website is?

    As i said earlier create multiple XML sitemap & then one index sitemap withe the location of all other sitemap.
     
    Ann_India, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    i have around 800 pages in my site , each page has 40 links inside .
     
    mecho, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    What? couldn't get you. What this 40 links. External links or internal links or any dynamic genearted web pages.

    Extrenal links are not to be added in XML sitemap. Only internal web pages need to be added.
     
    Ann_India, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    mecho Active Member

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    u set that no one can send a pm to u . i really need to show my site to u . so maybe u can make me clear that my sitemap created in correct way or not ...

    possible to talk to u via pm or any messenger ?
    thanks
     
    mecho, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  20. Ann_India

    Ann_India Peon

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    Add you site in the signature link. Anyways I have enabled PM status. Just send me PM with your site link.
     
    Ann_India, Feb 21, 2008 IP