Would removing a sitemap from webmaster account have adverse affects?

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by excaliburwebdesigners, Apr 15, 2007.

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    I currently have around 4000 pages indexed with google for one of my sites and unfortunately the servers i was using went down, i have transferred the site to a new server but in the process i have lost the sitemap, it was out of date anyway so if i leave the site without the sitemap will google continue to crawl the site naturally or will i loose some pages that have already been indexed?
     
    excaliburwebdesigners, Apr 15, 2007 IP
  2. prestons

    prestons Peon

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    You will not loose the pages that have already been indexed if these pages are still live. I have many pages indexed by Google that are not displayed in my sitemap.

    Why do you not just generate a new sitemap? It should only take about 5 minutes to do this.

    If you need one generating just PM me your URL and email address and I will send the new sitemap files to you.
     
    prestons, Apr 15, 2007 IP
  3. excaliburwebdesigners

    excaliburwebdesigners Peon

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    quote " It should only take about 5 minutes to do this."

    LOL i think it would take a little longer than 5 mins, its an article directory with 283,403 articles in 9 different languages, 9 x 283,403 = 2,550,627 pages, but thanks for the offer.

    I have been using gsitecrawler to generate the map but i upgraded the database when i migrated servers from 30,000 article to 283,000+ articles.

    im sure the is a logical way to generate it without using huge amount of server resources as the urls are

    http://www.freearticledirectory.co.uk/article1.html
    http://www.freearticledirectory.co.uk/article2.html

    and so on

    Then the ones in different languages are are very similar such as:

    http://www.freearticledirectory.co.uk/spanish.php?u=/article1.html
    http://www.freearticledirectory.co.uk/spanish.php?u=/article2.html

    So if you have any ideas that wont run up huge bandwidth please let me know. :)
     
    excaliburwebdesigners, Apr 15, 2007 IP
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    OK, I do agree. I did not realise the size of your site. I just read the 4000 pages bit. It just goes to show never make any comments unless you have all the information to hand.
     
    prestons, Apr 15, 2007 IP
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    Not to worry, I'm sure ill think of something, if i find my old site map it would be a start as i think it had around 30,000+ urls.
     
    excaliburwebdesigners, Apr 15, 2007 IP
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    If you have links to your website, and the internal pages are linked each other, I don't think the loss of sitemap will affect your website.
     
    hhheng, Apr 17, 2007 IP