Comments on: Is Your Google Sitemap Working?

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Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:38:52 +0000

[...] Intrasite Links Feed Search Engines Without links to follow through the various pages on the site, search engines won’t follow. You need to leave them breadcrumbs so they can find all the pages and add them to their database. Breadcrumbs come in many different forms, leading the search engine crawler down the path of your site. Breadcrumbs are the links from the next and previous posts, links in most recent posts or related post lists, and intrasite links from within your post content. Site maps, like your blog’s table of contents, are also useful to help search engines find an entire page filled with links to your various pages. A new technology called “XML Sitemaps”, started by Google and spread to Yahoo and other search engines, puts a hidden file on your host server listing all the published pages within your blog. I recently highlighted how to create and fix your Google Sitemap on Is Your Google Sitemap Working?, so you can find more resources there. Look through your blog for the breadcrumbs that will help lead a search engine through your site. Not enough intra-connecting links? Make some. [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:56:10 +0000

I noticed about a month ago that there was a huge drop in Google traffic coming into my site. Upon closer inspection I noticed that I had turned off my Sitemap plugin when upgrading wordpress. After noticing the issue all I did was turn on the plugin and rebuild the sitemap and now traffic has returned.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:24:00 +0000

Due to Google’s limit on pages, I have created seperate sitemaps for my archives. These will never change so I don’t bother about them much.

For the current posts, Google Sitemap plugin takes care of the needful.

I login to Google Sitemaps regularly to see if there are any problems wrt the sitemap or the sites