Googlebot only crawling sitemap sites?

I wonder if googlebot only crawl sites that are representet in sitemap.xml, or does it also crawl and index sites which are not included in the sitemap file?

 

Adding a sitemap is good, but google also crawls sites without sitemaps.

 

Ok, it's good to have that cleared up.

Thanks for the answer, angilina.

 

I did not get the question and its answer also, please explain it..

 

Can anyone guide me how can I add a sitemap to my site? I tried that doing earlier but had a hard luck. Any help?

 

Q: Will Google Bot crawl and index a website that does not have a sitemap?

A: Yes



Cheers
James

 

You can make a txt site map in notepad, one URL per line.. then upload it to the root of your directory.

If you want a .xml sitemap, then there are sites that do it (not sure of the addys) but I have been using GsiteCrawler.
It works well.

Cheers
James

 

It will crawl in both cases.
But the site with sitemaps have more chance.

 

It will crawl both ways !!

 

It will crawl in both cases. Sitemap helps in indexing your site better.

 

It will pick the pages and pages within pages till he find one....

sitemap helps webmasters, and site navigators and Google wants to help its readers...

 

I have a sitemap with 200 links, google indexed only 50.

 

Miranon has a point here that puzzles me too. I have submitted my sitemap and I have all the pages corss indexded nicely and still only a handful of pages appear on the search. Why?

 

Google loves sitemaps so have one! and register it via webmaster tools