Timeline for Can externally hosted sitemaps work with Google and Bing?
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| Oct 12, 2014 at 7:17 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWebmasters/status/521197914878902272 | ||
| Oct 10, 2014 at 22:16 | comment | added | closetnoc | Not at all. It just helps the search engine find your stuff. For example, I have about 600,000 pages and it is impossible to link them within the site. I do have links between the pages, just not from the site itself. I use a sitemap to tell Google about these pages that they may never find. Having a sitemap does not help in the traditional SEO sense. There are no metrics/factors within Google's famous 200+ that have anything to do with a sitemap. In fact, Google prefers not using one when the site is smaller and they can discover all of the pages through a traditional crawl. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 20:12 | comment | added | Jon | So sitemaps which optimize how search engines find your content have nothing to do with search engine optimization? | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 10:03 | history | edited | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 10:03 | answer | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 8, 2014 at 22:39 | comment | added | closetnoc | Just for the record, sitemaps have nothing to do with SEO. They only help search engines find your content. So whatever works - works. | |
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| Oct 8, 2014 at 20:01 | history | asked | Jon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |