How Important Is Submitting Your Sitemap To The Search Engines?

by StevenSaliba

Posted: 15 years ago 8 replies

any opinions?

#engines #important #search #sitemap #submitting

tamtu 15 years ago

If your site is indexed the bots will find your site map even if you don't submit them but some say it is good for SEO iam not so sure.
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- dburk 15 years ago
  
  Hi Steven,
  
  There is no need to submit your sitemap to any of the major search engines. You can use the robots exclusion file to specify the location of your sitemap and they will auto-discover when crawling your website. Just make sure you get backlinks.
  
  For the complete sitemaps protocol see: sitemaps.org - Home
  
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bhopkins 15 years ago

Submitting it to Google webmaster tools is very useful. Not only will it speed up Google indexing you, you can get some very useful information from the Webmaster tools about placement for pages in your site, etc.. It will come in handy as you develop your promotion strategy
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Shellaine 15 years ago

It get it into Yahoo you might spend some big bucks. With MSN is free just like Google.
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cassidywilliams 15 years ago

You do NOT need to submit your website anywhere, it gets crawled automatically.

You can only speed up the indexing process:
http://google.com/addurl
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx
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BurgerBoy 15 years ago

I had never submitted a site map to Google and I had thousands of pages on the first page search results on Google.

I submitted a site map to G and within a month most of my pages had disappeared from the first page on G.

I removed my site map from my sites and guess what? Within a couple of months all the missing pages were again on the first page on G search results.

Site maps didn't help me - they hurt me.
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- bgmacaw 15 years ago
  
  I don't recommend it.
  
  It doesn't seem to help as well as some other quick indexing techniques and, as BurgerBoy noted, it seems to slow down the indexing process at times.
  
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InternetMarketingIQ 15 years ago

Use a plug in for your Wordpress site to create and XML sitemap. Then let the search engines crawl it. It's that simple.

All sites will benefit from a properly formatted sitemap. It makes it easier for the search engine to crawl your content. But to take the time and actually submit them is not really a good use of time.

Google leads, others follow. Yahoo and MSN both know how to crawl a sitemap.
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