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I am big fan of Google but even MSN is indexing quicker.
It was a sort-of test to see if it would help before I tried it on one of my other subdomains which has some 80 or 90 percent of the pages indexed as URL only.
It may be pure coincidence but my PR was restored after I added the sitemap. I believe that my PR dropped because a download site 302 redirected to me and I had by mistake a not canonical (not absolute) URL in the affected page. It may happen that the site map helped to Google bot to understand that I am the owner of this page.
Vadim.
Coincidence? I dont know. But if anything, it shows it doesnt hurt and some of the data it provides are somewhat interesting: what search term was most likely to garner a click, etc.
But what I want to know is has adding sitemaps increased the speed of your new pages added into Google?
The answer at the moment is no. I want to know if larger selected sites with thousands of pages and higher PR (8/9) the answer is actually yes?
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Answer is YES! One of my sites got indexed in days and took top spot... details here:
No you not answering the question. I don’t want to know nor was sitemaps designed to include websites in Google...or rank them! I am talking about increased speed when indexing new pages as was the primary function of site maps.
geezes.
Before it would have taken months for new content to appear.
How big is your site?
If your talking Months then it may indeed work for you. Just not for my days.
Days? You probably have Adsense, do you use Urchin? I'm guessing Google will index you faster if more of there services you use - I'll know that for sure once I place Urchin on all 2000 pages of my old site and see if that gets Google interested to faster include new pages.
I'm still trying to find out how my new sites got indexed so fast - I want to repeat the process few more times. ;-)
Who else’s new pages are indexed in 4/5 days and what do you have (PR, AdSense, number of pages, time taken before Sitemaps and after Sitemaps etc...)?
I'm not noticing anything going quicker.
I echo this... I consider the work I did wasted. Very disappointing that Google should run this program and not really respond. I’ve had maps out there for nearly 3 weeks now. I also feel that Google will somehow punish me (even more) if I abandon the sitemap (which I would really like to do). Here is the promise:
- Better crawl coverage and fresher search results to help people find more of your web pages.
- A smarter crawl because you can tell us when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes.
- New! Detailed reports to learn more about how Google directs traffic to your site and how the Googlebot sees your pages.
I see this as over-promising and under-delivering.
It has made NO difference in rankings at all, they have been dead for over 2 months now, all the way through Jagger, no problems YET
has adding sitemaps increased the speed of your new pages added into Google?
Yes, with a properly navigational site that has some links pointed to it, on my sites Google sitemaps helps indexed the new site pages faster, usually within days. I suspect this is because Google goes specifically to the page (if it is within a reasonable amount of clicks) as opposed haphazardly trying to find it.
Almost like the difference between finding the treasure on an island without a map. The guy with the map is likely to find it first, and quicker.
Now what I want to know is whether Google sitemap help to crawl pages for newly launched site to get pages indexed faster.
Thanx
Why submited Sitemap is not successful for my part?
If your website has very little quality links to it, sitemaps are not effective as the spider will not feel the need to push any further to find new content regardless of how well the site is laid out.
