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Do Sitemaps provide any SEO benefit? Other than indexing.

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by MarketExpert, Nov 25, 2009.

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    Do Sitemaps provide any SEO benefit? Other than indexing.
     
    MarketExpert, Nov 25, 2009 IP
  2. Petebrock

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    One piece of the SEO puzzle entails information architecture. In addition to getting indexed, think of search engines as people for a moment. They come to your site and they try to figure out what you are about. The more organized your content, the better. Site maps are a part of helping the engines understand us.
     
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  3. MarketExpert

    MarketExpert Well-Known Member

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    Thanks. "information architecture" is known to the search engine experts as latent semantic indexing.
     
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    MarketExpert Well-Known Member

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    I do appreciate your response, and everything you said was correct. :)
     
    MarketExpert, Nov 25, 2009 IP
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    #5
    quick question: would this apply even if your site was very small? I have one site with 70 something pages (and have a site map on that one....), but other small sites just at 5-7 pages or less. Since there are so few pages, is a site map still recommended or necessary?
    thanks!
     
    BadLeia, Dec 3, 2009 IP
  6. Datona

    Datona Banned

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    I would highly suggest anyone, no matter how small the site is, to create a proper sitemap.
     
    Datona, Dec 4, 2009 IP
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    HTML sitemap for the web crawl and XML via GWT and you should improve your indexing - though their are more important factors this is a good start.
     
    TeeDogg252, Dec 9, 2009 IP
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    I think., indexing is the main purpose of creating/submitting sitemaps to search engine, otherwise some pages may be left uninexed, also it makes indexing faster than indexing without submission...
     
    ranacseruet, Dec 9, 2009 IP
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    sitemap is like a map of your pages, it helps the search engines to crawl you inner pages and also useful to get indexing in search engine
     
    zgerm, Dec 9, 2009 IP
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    Yes it is a way to make it easy on the search engines to index your pages. Certain criteria are not relevant once the search engines are familiar (crawl frequently). For instance I have a site with 50,000 pages and Google does not care for me to tell it the pages are updated daily... it already knows it!
     
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  11. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    It helps in indexing and that's a part of SEO.
    It also tells search engines how well your site is organized and how often your site is being updated. You cal also specify priorities of pages to crawl, and all of these are parts of SEO.
     
    Abhik, Dec 13, 2009 IP
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    I would say absolutly, When I hear really small, I think about a one page sales site.
     
    SeoJason, Dec 14, 2009 IP
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    Use HTML-sitemap for Users/customers and XML-sitemap for Search Engines..
     
    hsvyas, Dec 18, 2009 IP
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    Great advice. HTML sitemaps for users; XML sitemaps for search engines.
     
    andrew-bkk, Dec 22, 2009 IP
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    Thanks or all the info. I have been looking for answers to these questions for a while.
     
    tronsmith, Dec 22, 2009 IP
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    oops after reading this ..i got to add site map for my sites
     
    purpleorange, Dec 23, 2009 IP