Hi, what do you think? How many sites use sitemaps? Some weeks ago I did some reseach (via google) and got the following figures: 101,000 for inurl:sitemap.xml filetype:xml 37 for inurl:sitemap.gz filetype:gz 808 for inurl:sitemaps.xml filetype:xml 612 for inurl:sitemap.xml.gz filetype:gz 3 for inurl:sitemaps.xml.gz filetype:gz 111 for inurl:sitemap_index.xml filetype:xml 4 for inurl:sitemaps_index.xml filetype:xml 34 for inurl:sitemap_index.xml.gz filetype:gz If you use a sitemap please let me know! I would like to get / compile a list of sites using sitemaps. Unfortunatelly you can only retrieve the first 1000 hits from a Google query. regards .
A lot is very precise Vanesa Fox (which worked for Google and was kind of responsible for the sitemaps - blog at vanessa fox nude dot com I can not post URLs) never said how many sites really use them - if it is good and sucessfull why do they not mention numbers. Some German sites, e.g., use it for parts of their sites and do not do the whole site. .
i use a site map just in my google web masters tool helps google find pages in ur site only usefull with sites over 100 pages, other then thats its worthless in my opinion
every one should use it even if you have one page in your site. but many people doesn't understand how help full to rank own site in search engine by having sitemap. You must have sitemap.xml and sitemap.txt or rss and submited to top search engines: 1) If you want to get more traffic from search engines 2) If you want to get increase your traffic from search engines 3) If you want search engines to index/add/include more pages in search engine we do create site map and send them to all top search engines and update all sitemap atleast once week. Add /sitemap.xml and /sitemap.txt after all our signature link sites to see our site map. example: a1bidlinks.com/sitemap.xml and a1bidlinks.com/sitemap.txt
I am using sitemap on two sites. I have 10 websites. Check my sitemap. http://proxynext.com/sitemap.xml