Do Sitemap Effect Backlinks?

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by acetag, Jan 29, 2013.

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    Today, I checked Google webmaster tool, I got a message that"Your Sitemap contains too many URLs. Please create multiple Sitemaps with up to 50000 URLs each and submit all Sitemaps." and I saw that my back-link decreased from 1944 to 421. Please tell me does sitemap effect my back-links? or why my back-links go down so much?
    Thanks
     
    acetag, Jan 29, 2013 IP
  2. websitetools

    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    In short in my opinion: The two things are not related at all. (Do also notice that GWT will only show you a subset of your backlinks.)
     
    websitetools, Feb 1, 2013 IP
  3. ervins

    ervins Greenhorn

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    Was wondering the same thing, but i don't think it would affects your backlinks
     
    ervins, Feb 3, 2013 IP
  4. acetag

    acetag Greenhorn

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    Thanks for all helps. I see that google remove low quality back links and save my high quality back links. And my page rank is increased after google update pagerank on 2/4/2013.
     
    acetag, Feb 5, 2013 IP
  5. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    There is no relationship. Sitemaps just tell the search engines what URLs exist on your site to help with indexing.
     
    dcristo, Feb 5, 2013 IP
  6. Rich Infra

    Rich Infra Member

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    I don't think that sitemap really help to increase the backlinks, its good for indexing all page of a website at a time in SERP.
     
    Rich Infra, Feb 6, 2013 IP
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    darkbox Greenhorn

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    Sitemaps is for crawlers to check your links on the website.
     
    darkbox, Feb 10, 2013 IP
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    jorgepson Active Member

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    what i know about sitemap is, it's a bridging section where in SERP's bot will easily access deeper pages. and i am doubtful that sitemap can affect your backlinks. Backlinks are links pointing towards to your site and and site i an hierarchy of links of your website. so that's why they have no connection at all.

    just my opinion.
     
    jorgepson, Feb 10, 2013 IP
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    Ya it effect on backlinks when Google crawl than it will delete un-relevant links only relevant links will be there.
     
    jaismeen, Feb 12, 2013 IP