Breaking up large sitemaps

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by bfellow, Jan 4, 2008.

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    I'm sure this is up for debate, just my personal experience.

    I was dealing with a large sitemap for work and continued to have problems successfully generating them. Once I did generate them, I uploaded them go Google Sitemaps and let them get indexed.

    After another issue occurred, I ended up braking my sitemap up into 5,000 url bunches naming sitemap.xml, sitemap2.xml, sitemap3.xml and so on. I uploaded all these to Google. After about two days I noticed I had a LOT more indexed.

    Maybe this is just a coincidence, but hey it worked for me!
     
    bfellow, Jan 4, 2008 IP
  2. monosodium

    monosodium Well-Known Member

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    interesting. did you have a single sitemap index file? or no index file - did you just submit all of them to GWT separately?
     
    monosodium, Jan 4, 2008 IP
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    sitemap is one of the factors for being more indexed pages. thanks for sharing your experience
     
    trichnosis, Jan 14, 2008 IP