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Sitemaps Important For New Sites

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by seoquiz, Jun 27, 2006.

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    I have read a few posts about webmasters removing their sitemaps and achieving a higher number of pages indexed in Google. As a webmaster of a fairly new site (about 2 weeks old) I have been using Google Sitemaps and most of my pages (as of now 45 pages: site:freeseoquiz.com/ ) have been indexed. Possibly this is just because my site is new.
     
    seoquiz, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  2. arcon5

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    People, who's website is not fully indexed may have many pages which are not in the sitemap, and google may decide to skip some pages if they are not in the sitemap - i dont fully understand how it works, so I could be wrong.
     
    arcon5, Jun 28, 2006 IP
  3. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    I dont see how a sitemap could ever hurt a site at all.
     
    aaron_nimocks, Jun 28, 2006 IP
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    My website - squarehippies.com is quite new and got indexed after I submitted my sitemap to Google. Only now the content is 1 week old although I resubmit my sitemap regularly whenever I update my site.
     
    squarehippies, Jul 5, 2006 IP
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    I usually publish an xml site map with every new site I do
     
    biotechguy0331, Jul 7, 2006 IP
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    I think googlesitemap is the important thing that your site shoul have to make your site fully indexed
     
    formatcv, Jul 7, 2006 IP
  7. JBauer

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    I created and submitted my sitemap a week ago. Unforunetly Google has yet ito index a single page. It doesn't report any crawling errors, and actually indicates my secure side url as the only page indexed. The https:\\ page has been indexed for months, without using sitemaps.

    Hopefully it's just a matter of time, as I know of no way to force Sitemaps to index.
     
    JBauer, Jul 19, 2006 IP
  8. websitetools

    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    It is still a good idea to get some incoming links. A Google XML sitemap itself is no guarantee that all pages will be crawled and indexed.
     
    websitetools, Jul 19, 2006 IP
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    I'm completely with Aaron on this one. It's the "fix your 404" that kills indexed sites!
     
    MaxPowers, Jul 20, 2006 IP