Re: XML Sitemaps for Large Sites

Adam,

That advice (not using an XML sitemap) still seems to be in
vogue on
SEOMOZ. The thinking there is that submitting the XML
sitemap actually
makes it harder for you to discover "weak" pages
on a site because
Google gets them via the sitemap as opposed to a natural
crawl.

On Dec 12, 5:14 pm, Adam Audette <p...audettemedia.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has experience using XML
sitemap feeds for
> sites over 30,000 pages. Specifically, what sort of
improvements in
> crawling and/or indexing (or even ranking) have you
tracked? We did a
> site that was about 30k pages this summer and noted
some improvements
> in indexing time (faster crawling), but overall it
hasn't had a
> significant impact.
>
> Intuitively it just makes sense to push content into
the engines
> rather than wait for them to find it. And I'm sure with
dynamic sites
> that have crawling roadblocks it helps a bunch, but I'm
not convinced
> XML sitemaps really make that big of a difference. I'd
love to hear
> otherwise.
>
> There are even those who contend that adding a sitemap
can actually
> hinder a site in some way. For awhile I was reading
advice to verify
> your site in Google Webmaster Tools but not submit a
feed. Any
> changing views on this? It seems if a site has big
problems (like
> loads of dupe content) that creating a feed would allow
googlebot to
> discover those issues perhaps easier.
>
> -Adam Audette
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