I have a question for the sitemap guru's out there. If I submit a sitemap to google with the link 1234.html which has a link to 4321.html (not included in the sitemap) will google index 4321.html by following the links from 1234.html?
Yes , google will still index it . But you must NOT completely depend on sitemap to get your site indexed. Get some back links from other sites also. When google comes to your site , it indexes a few pages in one go and then later returns for more and updates. Let it come again. Regards Jeet