What are the benefits? It seems like the less people using YPN, the less money they will make. How can that be a benefit?
I don't think it's necessary. G picks up my site changes and new pages with or without a site map. As long as there is a link to a new page...
I just use my home page in my sitemap and G still picks up all the pages of my site.
You can also do a sitemap that's nothing more than a simple text file (use the .txt extension) which lists one URL per line and G will accept it.
Sitemaps has done nothing as far as changing my rankings in G. If you have links to all your content and external sites link to your site, all...
Sitemaps have not done much for me as far as indexing. I find all my pages eventually get indexed even if they are not in my sitemap. Sitemaps is...
G will index more than 50K pages, but the site needs to have been in existence for while. A new site will not get all pages indexed immediately....
Doing a sitemap doesn't guarantee indexing. The best way to achieve having your site indexed is to have other sites link to your site.
I have resorted to using a single URL sitemap, my home page, for submission. G still crawls my entire site. Why do such a thing? Because sitemaps...
Right. G has just updated their index, so the change in sitemaps may have nothing to do with the drop in rankings.
You can check to see if the page is already indexed by G. If so, there really is no need to worry about putting it in a sitemap.
You will also get this warning in sitemaps if you use an htaccess to redirect non-existent pages to an actual page. I got the warning and my...
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