Answer by Rohit Gupta for The Sitemap Paradox
Everyone is talking about Google. And Google is the largest search engine, but it's not the only one. Bing and Yandex have not died yet. And they seem to like the sitemap.My suggestion is that you need...
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I recently restructured a site that I am still working on. Because there was no good way I could see to link 500,000 pages to help users, I decided to use an XML sitemap and submit it to Google and use...
View ArticleAnswer by John Mueller for The Sitemap Paradox
Disclaimer: I work together with the Sitemaps team at Google, so I'm somewhat biased :-).In addition to using Sitemaps extensively for "non-web-index" content (images, videos, News, etc.) we use...
View ArticleAnswer by dan for The Sitemap Paradox
A well constructed site doesn't need a sitemap although it can assist with our coverage and ranking and adds a little extra value such as priority, update frequency, etc. You can tell a search engine...
View ArticleAnswer by Mike Hawkins for The Sitemap Paradox
This was (first?) written about by Randfish over at SEOmoz back in the good old year of 2007. The first time around he came to the same types of conclusions, but then time did it's thing... and...
View ArticleAnswer by setiri for The Sitemap Paradox
I disagree that google will not index the sitemapped-only links. I have numerous sites which have pages only reachable via sitemaps, and google indexes them without issue. I can give many examples of...
View ArticleAnswer by JasonBirch for The Sitemap Paradox
Sitemaps can save your ass.On one of my sites, I have a large number of links that I prevent search engines from spidering. Long story short, Google was mis-interpreting JS in my forum and triggering...
View ArticleAnswer by TRiG for The Sitemap Paradox
We use sitemaps (not submitted to search engines, but linked in robots.txt) mainly for making sure the homepage has the highest <priority>. I'm not sure whether they have much other use.
View ArticleAnswer by Marco Demaio for The Sitemap Paradox
Jeff, I have no idea about Stackoverflow because I have never had the opportunity in my life to be a webmaster of such a huge and so frequently updated website.For small websites that do not frequently...
View ArticleAnswer by joedevon for The Sitemap Paradox
I heard that sitemaps put your pages into the supplemental index faster. But I haven't even heard the supplemental index mentioned in ages, so they may not be using it anymore.P.S. in case my statement...
View ArticleAnswer by Franz for The Sitemap Paradox
if you care about this topic, please read this great google paper http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/research-study-of-sitemaps.html ( april 2009 ) - read the complete paper, not only...
View ArticleAnswer by AJ Kohn for The Sitemap Paradox
Sitemaps are incredibly valuable if you use them correctly.First off, the fact that Google says they are hints is only there to a) ensure that webmasters aren't under the false impression that sitemap...
View ArticleAnswer by Davis Peixoto for The Sitemap Paradox
Let it crawl.I do the following:make the site crawlable in the old way.make sure I do have a robots.txt with a sitemap indication on it.make a XML sitemap, but do not submit. Let crawler discover and...
View ArticleAnswer by blunders for The Sitemap Paradox
DO NOT USE SITEMAPSSitemaps are mainly for sites that do not timestamp indexes and nodes.... SE does both for it's core content, so having a sitemap will slow a crawler down... Yes, that's right, it...
View ArticleAnswer by LabSlice for The Sitemap Paradox
I believe SiteMaps only serve two purposes these days:They allow you to reduce the frequency of spidering to alleviate server load. This should not really be an issue for most sites.They can help...
View ArticleAnswer by Joshak for The Sitemap Paradox
If you know you have good site architecture and the Google would find your pages naturally the only benefit I'm aware of is faster indexing, if your site is getting indexed fast enough for you then no...
View ArticleAnswer by Adam for The Sitemap Paradox
I believe that search engines use the sitemap not so much to find pages, but to optimize how they often they check them for updates. They look at <changefreq> and <lastmod>. Google probably...
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel Alexiuc for The Sitemap Paradox
In Google's words: "In most cases, webmasters will benefit from Sitemap submission, and in no case will you be penalized for it."But I agree that the best thing you can do if you want your website...
View ArticleAnswer by Travis Illig for The Sitemap Paradox
I've not run into this myself, but the majority of my projects are applications or sites that otherwise require user accounts so indexing by search engines isn't a focus.That said, I've heard before...
View ArticleAnswer by Gelmir for The Sitemap Paradox
I suspect: for Google, sitemaps are necessary to keep track of updates in the fastest way possible. E.g., let's say you have added a new content to some deep location of your web site, which takes more...
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We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it.Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow...
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