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It makes sense that links that are only found in the sitemap don't get indexed. Unless you link to the sitemap somewhere on your site (not including in robots.t
by WillyF 16y ago
It makes sense that links that are only found in the sitemap don't get indexed. Unless you link to the sitemap somewhere on your site (not including in robots.txt), then you're not going to pass any PageRank to the sitemap, and it's not going to pass any PageRank to the pages it's linked to.
Being crawled and being indexed are two different things. Sitemaps allow Googlebot to crawl your site more easily. What gets indexed has a lot to do with PageRank, and if you're not flowing PageRanks efficiently through the site, you're going to have indexation problems.
Here's an interesting post on how sitemaps affect crawlers: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/do-sitemaps-effect-crawlers http://www.seomoz.org/blog/do-sitemaps-effect-crawlers
- mattmanser 16y agoPR isn't the only thing in the world. Google regularly state that a large % of their searches are unique. If you've got the only site in the entire world that talks about mutant killer spider monkeys it should come up top if someone searches for that term, regardless of the page's PR. After all, that site's the only one in the world with the foresight to predict the coming apocalypse.
- codinghorror 16y agowe feed Google the sitemap.txt through Google Webmaster Tools