Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew if you had a sitemap.xml that was not 100% accurate to your site, would you be penalised in the rankings. By this I mean my site has 10 static pages, but 100's of dynamically created recruitment pages - i.e. I can upload jobs via a CMS and the pages are created online. This means that my sitemap is not always accurate. What are people's feelings on this? Many thanks in advance. Mischa
I would only list the static pages, there shouldn't be an issue with lining to dynamic ones but you want to keep the broken links away from Google as much as possible. My best suggestion would be to make the content dynamic and the urls static so even if no content appears on them the page is still there with some holder content, article or something will be fine.
When you build your sitemap all URLs should be used, static or dynamic. The only reason to not use dynamic URLs is if they change constantly, by this I mean link to one set of content can be different the next day, which usually doesn't happen. You might want to consider using mod rewrite in apache to make your dynamic URLs look static.