Which Sitemap is best for your site

mark1230 · 02-22-2008, 03:38 AM

Google love to have XML Sitemap protocol as defined by sitemaps.org.Because of the reason that you can easily upgrade an XML Sitemap later on to include more metadata.Yu can also create multiple sitemaps and use a Sitemap Index file to list them all.
Html format is not recognised by the google Sitemap formats and this will result in showing errors.

What sitemaps pritority means According to google's help center as "priority only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact the ranking of your pages in search results."

Does submitting a sitemaps guarantees your submission to google :

Well answer is simply no

webcosmo · 02-22-2008, 04:30 AM

Submitting a sitemap does not guarantee crawl. But some believe it does help. I would rather use other methods to get the site crawled faster.

hem1234 · 02-22-2008, 06:12 AM

It will crawl very easily if you have good back links. More back links will help your website to crawl fast.

mark1230 · 02-22-2008, 08:03 AM

thats right the more backlinks the more google spider out from there

Alan · 02-22-2008, 08:37 AM

From sitemaps.org

Quote:

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Quote:

has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

I think sums it up nicely.

alemcherry · 02-24-2008, 06:15 PM

Sitemaps are of no use, from my experience.

coolguy27 · 02-25-2008, 04:48 PM

Sitemap is for faster crawling.. SEs will depend on the sitemap links and crawls it soon.... But even without sitemap still SEs crawls the site.. For deep links is the purpose of sitemap and for easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site....

Spency · 03-04-2008, 02:07 PM

My opinion and experience suggests that SiteMaps do not help you get indexed faster, but they do tend to help to get more pages indexed.

amjad_you · 03-10-2008, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by webcosmo

I would rather use other methods to get the site crawled faster.

Can you please share that method

linkplacementservices · 03-21-2008, 05:45 PM

we use XML for Google/ text for Yahoo and Html for every other search engine

traderzoe · 03-23-2008, 09:18 AM

I would agree with Spency. Using the sitemap feature at Google has seemed to help with indexing more pages and would seem most beneficial for large sites, especially those with rapidly changing/expanding content. It would also seem obvious that a new site, lacking in existing external links, will also find benefit in at least alerting Google to all of the content that is available for indexing more quickly. And as Google points out, site maps also help with content that might difficult to spider due to javascript functionality or other complex presentations including sites using any flash navigation at all.

alemcherry may be right in that they have little or no use, but considering how easy it is to output a sitemap, especially if you have any kind of CMS or otherwise database driven site, it seems to me a harmless and inexpensive extra tool.

But at the very least by submitting a sitemap, you get a definitive count on how many pages of your site have been indexed. And isn't that what we all need? More statistics

oldstocks · 03-28-2008, 02:59 AM

I have had pretty good luck by submitting sitemaps to both Yahoo & Google. It seemed to help them index my pages quicker.

I like the simplicity and results generated by xml-sitemaps.com but I think it is users choice.

02-22-2008, 03:38 AM	#1
mark1230 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 76	Which Sitemap is best for your site Google love to have XML Sitemap protocol as defined by sitemaps.org.Because of the reason that you can easily upgrade an XML Sitemap later on to include more metadata.Yu can also create multiple sitemaps and use a Sitemap Index file to list them all. Html format is not recognised by the google Sitemap formats and this will result in showing errors. What sitemaps pritority means According to google's help center as "priority only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact the ranking of your pages in search results." Does submitting a sitemaps guarantees your submission to google : Well answer is simply no __________________ website optimisation

02-22-2008, 04:30 AM	#2
webcosmo Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cambridge,MA,USA Posts: 243	Re: Which Sitemap is best for your site Submitting a sitemap does not guarantee crawl. But some believe it does help. I would rather use other methods to get the site crawled faster. __________________ Webmaster Forums Where We Help Each Other - WebCosmoForums.com WEBMASTER FORUMS - JOIN THE FUN FORUM Free Classified Ads

02-22-2008, 06:12 AM	#3
hem1234 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 174	Re: Which Sitemap is best for your site It will crawl very easily if you have good back links. More back links will help your website to crawl fast.

02-22-2008, 08:03 AM	#4
mark1230 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 76	Re: Which Sitemap is best for your site thats right the more backlinks the more google spider out from there __________________ website optimisation

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alemcherry Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 280	Re: Which Sitemap is best for your site Sitemaps are of no use, from my experience. __________________ Shared Hosting Reviews - Dedicated Server Review - Bluehost Review

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03-04-2008, 02:07 PM	#8
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03-23-2008, 09:18 AM	#11
traderzoe Smurf Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 24	Re: Which Sitemap is best for your site I would agree with Spency. Using the sitemap feature at Google has seemed to help with indexing more pages and would seem most beneficial for large sites, especially those with rapidly changing/expanding content. It would also seem obvious that a new site, lacking in existing external links, will also find benefit in at least alerting Google to all of the content that is available for indexing more quickly. And as Google points out, site maps also help with content that might difficult to spider due to javascript functionality or other complex presentations including sites using any flash navigation at all. alemcherry may be right in that they have little or no use, but considering how easy it is to output a sitemap, especially if you have any kind of CMS or otherwise database driven site, it seems to me a harmless and inexpensive extra tool. But at the very least by submitting a sitemap, you get a definitive count on how many pages of your site have been indexed. And isn't that what we all need? More statistics __________________ http://cotradeco.com/ Network, meet people, & swap stories stories and news at the community lodge or do some shopping at the trading post.

03-28-2008, 02:59 AM	#12
oldstocks Smurf Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4	Re: Which Sitemap is best for your site I have had pretty good luck by submitting sitemaps to both Yahoo & Google. It seemed to help them index my pages quicker. I like the simplicity and results generated by xml-sitemaps.com but I think it is users choice. __________________ Regards, OldStocks

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