Comments on: My Favorite SEO Argument: Sitemap vs. No Sitemap?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:40:00 +0000

Very odd situation happened with 2 websites when i created 2 sitemaps for both websites. I have been an SEO person to never create a sitemap or use them period. Then I an itch and it said to create two xml sitemaps for 2 different websites. After uploading them to there website directory that was in correlation with the sitemap I then went into Google WebMaster Tools and added the sitemaps for both websites. Less than 2 days later very highly ranked keywords literally dropped from page 1 with over 30 keywords being on page 1 of google to page 2, 3, 4, 29, etc i assume you get the picture. This was for both websites all the other websites I left alone and they are perfectly fine with never having used or implemented a sitemap so it leads to be believe from first hand experience that it's a bad idea to use an xml sitemap. Now I am sure that hundreds of people can argue back and forth about this and that is ok. I just think personally that I wont be utilizing an XML Sitemap again...this one change and only change has costed me hundreds of dollars losted over the past 3 days of my ranking dropping. Now I can say that it did index more pages faster even though google would have gotten around to it within 3-7 days instead of 1 or 2, but to preserve my high ranking I am more than willing to wait. I added the xml sitemap on January 2, 2012 and on January 4, 2012 page 1 many rankings/keywords disappeared by the 5th only dropped further back I have since deleted the sitemaps from the web dirs and removed them from google web master tools. To find out more you can go check this out.. Tucson Internet Marketing

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By: John

John — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:01:17 +0000

@ Larry,

Thanks for commenting! I like your way of thinking – anything worth doing is worth doing correctly.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:46:14 +0000

Like with all development, the key is not the tools you use but how you use them. Sitemaps are a great tool if you code properly. If you do not follow good coding techniques then no tools will help you.

I hear the same argument about vb.net vs. c#.net. I’m proficient in both but I prefer vb as it’s easier to work with and actually I find it LESS verbose than c#, contrary to the literature out there. The arguments against vb amount to the fact that it’s easier to code poorly. So, don’t code poorly!

I always find my rankings go up after resubmitting my sitemap. I know my sitemap is not the only reason I get consistently high hits however. It’s just a matter of doing everything correctly.