Is the google site map really effective?

I have lost my indexed pages twice.
I had more than 10+ pages indexed.. after using sitemap it's down to 4 pages.. I don't know..

 

Well It's up to you, If your patient It will pay of, but I'm not sure you need a site map for 10 pages

 

site's will be crawled by se's without a sitemap, but the advantage of having a sitemap is kindly users friendl, by gving your some site's stats.

 

Yeah, they're really effective. A new site of me got indexed within a day.

And the stats are also great.

 

XML sitemap pays well IMO.
Not only its helps the pages get index, keyword/ranking tool google provides with sitemap are too useful.

Just make sure the sitemap you are using complies with googles DTD..

 

I would not worry about it.

Sometimes my site shows up as having 2480 pages in google and other times it is 140. The same goes for backlinks- I used to have 280, then it dropped to 81 and now it is on 30 ish, there's not much you can do about it!

 

I don't know if it's the site map or not, but I got indexed in less than 24 hours!

 

Well it really seems helpful to me. I get a lot information about my site from the Google SiteMaps.

 

same here for all of my sites

 

Well ya thats a general thing it often happens with everyone you can also say that its a bug in their algo, this is not the problem of only Google but also of the other search engines too!

 

With 1 sitemap internal in the web indexing all urls no need sitemap.xml , imo

 

Its very much effective, after submitting the sitemap, the no of indexed pages increased, but you have to give a few days, have patience...



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I have found that a simple sitemap (not a Google sitemap) that has links to each page using keyphrases is as effective as a Google Sitemap. I've done comparisons. Also MSN & Yahoo! will not pick up a Google Sitemap unless its linked from a page on the site. Not sure what the point of a google sitemap is really if your site is crawlable.

 

My site already index in other SE except Google which I already submit GG sitemap long time ago.

 

Submitting sitemaps doesn't gurantee an inclusion just wait for sometime and you might be indexed soon.

 

Google sitemaps are the best thing since sliced bread, I had a site that had one page indexed made a sitemap, submited it 4 days later the vast majority of the pages are indexed!

 

Sitemaps are for large sites so google knows what pages are important. It won't get your site indexed faster or at all for that matter. A html sitemap on your site is great for this. But backlinks are what makes your site get indexed.

 

could you explain more what you mean by "a simple sitemap" and not a Google sitemap?

Thanks
Paul

 

Sitemap page may boost the crawling speed and thus ranking effectiveness of documents at a website. Sitemaps supposedly do not influence search engine rankings, but they do influence the crawl speed and depth, giving your documents a better chance of receiving boosts. Plus you have think also your possible visitors if you think you have a numerous pages, Sitemap is convenient at all time. ciao!

 

Google sitemaps is very useful for the stats it provides. For that alone it is worth it.