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Sitemaps: Does My SE Lover Understand Me?

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When Google announced the sitemaps program I created some and submitted them.

Didn’t you?

Nothing special resulted. Admittedly I did discover a tiny number of pages out of many the almighty search engine said it was having problems with. A quick regeneration of the pages put those aright.

But I never saw a benefit: the pages were crawled regularly without sitemaps. No more so with them.

I said to heck with sitemaps.

But I had a sitemap reconversion experience recently. I added four more sitemaps.

Near as I can tell those sites haven’t benefited a particle. Each has fresh words added daily (content to you illiterates).

Maybe Google is occupied with bad data pushes, seventeen new varieties of beta gimmicks, sorry, projects. But those sites were doing no less well without the sitemaps.

For now I’m not persuaded that Google sitemaps are benefiting me.

Yet.

Richard
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Yesterday’s server logs show visits from Googlebot more recent than what is said on the sitemaps page.

Posted by: Richard Evans Lee | June 22, 2006 11:07 AM

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Richard


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