Backlinks in Sitemap.xml and line breaks in robots.txt?
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The plugin creates two fles: sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz and stores them in the root directory of the server.
I have several questions:
The plugin generates a sitemap xml document that has a backlink to the web site of the plugn's creator in it.
Is this a problem? I mean, I don't mind back linking to the guy's site because I am using his sitemap plugin for free, so it's all fine with me, but what about SEO?
Sometimes backlinks to sites that Google considers spammy or "bad"can harm your site's ranking...
Does Google care about backlinks in the sitemap.xml or does it ingnore them?
Should I remove the backlink to the plugin creator's site from my sitemap?
My robots.txt file used to be petty simple, it used to look like this:
User-agent: * Disallow:
Now my robots.txt contains this new line:
User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: http://site.com/sitemap.xml.gz
Now, can Google read archived sitemaps in a .gz fromat?
Also, how true it is that empty/blank lines should not be used in robots.txt? Should I manually remove the empty line break in my robots.txt?
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