Can google crawl without a site map

13 years ago

Yes it can.

But it will be slower than if you submit your sitemap to Google Webmasters Tool. (based on my personal experience with numerous sites)

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darrenlc

13 years ago

As long as you have some links pointing to your site then Google will follow them in and then follow your internal links unless of course you tell it not to. Html sitesmaps and xml sitesmaps would help you more though.

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oliverjones

13 years ago

But I can't tell if my internal linking is ok?

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wlasikiewicz

13 years ago

Yes they can but a sitemap make life alot easier for google and your website to be indexed

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darrenlc

13 years ago

Type sitesmap generator into Google. Create one and submit it in your Google webmaster tools.

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paulgl

13 years ago

Complete nonsense. You don't need a sitemap.
In fact, just the opposite is true. If you NEED
a sitemap, your site structure is lame.

A sitemap has never been required, and if you
have a large site, it's impossible to keep up.

A sitemap is just one of those voodoo SEO
things, that do nothing.

If google needs a sitemap to crawl your site,
man you have problems.

You think the WF has a sitemap? These threads
are crawled instantly as soon as you create them.
The WF does not need a sitemap, for the same reason
that no other site should need a sitemap.

There is nothing magic about a sitemap, but it sounds
better than "hard work."

Paul

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oliverjones 13 years ago

So do you think my site is crawlable?
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banx63

13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Complete nonsense. You don't need a sitemap.
In fact, just the opposite is true. If you NEED
a sitemap, your site structure is lame.

A sitemap has never been required, and if you
have a large site, it's impossible to keep up.

A sitemap is just one of those voodoo SEO
things, that do nothing.

If google needs a sitemap to crawl your site,
man you have problems.

You think the WF has a sitemap? These threads
are crawled instantly as soon as you create them.
The WF does not need a sitemap, for the same reason
that no other site should need a sitemap.

There is nothing magic about a sitemap, but it sounds
better than "hard work."

Paul

The Google crawlers are on the warrior forum permenantly thats why the forum does not need a sitemap. For small to medium sites they are good practice, not essential but better than not having one.

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darrenlc

13 years ago

Otherwise type site:www.yourwebsitename.com and it will bring back a list of pages that are indexed for your site. If you get what you expect then you'll know if you internal link structure is ok or not.

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matthewjudd

13 years ago

Yes.. Google crawler can crawl your sites and other pages of your site, but it takes time than sitemap. Sitemap is important, because crawler can get all the important links of your site from one place. So it will crawl your website pages faster.

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innpacked 13 years ago

Yes Google crawl whole website without sitemap. if you having a sitemap in your website root directory crawler can read whole website structure easily. It also helps to make user friendly websites.
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hilarious89

13 years ago

Yes, if you submit your website to Google webmaster tool. Google will automatically create sitemaps for your site.

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carlamax

13 years ago

Google can crawl your site if you have been use webmaster tool.

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danielthomas

13 years ago

Google bot can crawl a page or site in many ways. Through back links, sitemap, adding url to Google and so on. Having a sitemap is added as an advantage.

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denharsh

13 years ago

Indeed it wil...If Google find your site by any ways like Ping, link from other site or any other ways..
Though having a sitemap helps Google understand all your links and also by submitting sitemap to Google, you inform them about new site...

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SamDenial

13 years ago

Yes Google crawler can crawl your website without sitemap but crawler will fetch random website pages. In sitemap it tells step by step about your web pages to crawlers.

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Banned 13 years ago

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techprastish 13 years ago

Yes it can possible but without sitemap google will crawl website very slowly and if you are going through sitemap google will crawl faster.
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sureshgupta

13 years ago

Yes, Google can crawl web pages without xml sitemap. For this Google needs only on dofollow link to reach the page and If the content is original then GOogle loves to get index that page.

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rahmanpaidar

13 years ago

You can't change any facts by submitting sitemap to google and pretend your
now-indexed-pages are good enough to get ranked.

If your site needs sitemap to get its new page indexed, then you have a serious internal
linking pattern problem on your site.

You have two options at your disposal:

1) You can fix your internal linking pattern,
2) You can submit a new sitemap every 10 seconds to Google

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