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Google sitemap, How important is it?
maffelu

18 Apr, 2009 - 11:27 PM
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As the header says, how important is it to add a sitemap to google?

I have a webpage (here) which I recently added a blog to(due to frustration over TPB), now do I have to enter a new sitemap to google after every entry on that blog to get it registered on google, or will the spiders find them entries anyway since the main page is listed?

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8 Jun, 2009 - 01:18 PM
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Google will find most pages on any site as long as:
- there's a link to it
- it's not buried within many sub-levels of navigation

So, as long as your pages are easily found by a human, they'll be easily found by Google. Any page that doesn't have a link to it will eventually be dropped by the SERPs even if you submit it via a sitemap.

That being said, it's never a bad idea to submit a sitemap to Google, Yahoo or any other search engine. It might prompt them to recrawl your site if they haven't visited for awhile.
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15 Jun, 2009 - 11:20 PM
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Well, that's cool. So I'm not totally wasting my time adding sitemaps then.

I have come to understand that google crawls anyways, and so does yahoo.

I must however say that Googles system for adding sitemaps is ALOT more user-friendly than Yahoo's. I still haven't applied one to yahoo since I find it to be so much trouble.
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17 Jun, 2009 - 09:09 PM
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There are two types of site maps, bot-site maps and human-site maps. Bot-site maps are what search engines use to crawl your site. Human-site maps are used by users to navigate through your site easier. You're right, Google makes it a whole lot easier to submit site maps than any other search engine.

There is an even easier way to submit site maps, use a robots.txt file. All you have to do is declare it with "Sitemap : http://www.site.com/site-map.xml" and the spiders automatically find it.

Hope this spreads some light on site maps.

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