Hello here,
I am trying to understand how Google uses the SiteMap I submit, if it
uses it exclusively or just as "additional" information to the normal
crawling.

For example, if I create a SiteMap of just a bunch of frequently
updated pages, will Google still crawl and index the rest of my pages
not included in the SiteMap? Or do I need always to include ALL the
pages of my site into the SiteMap?

I hope you understand my question. I look forward for any reply.

Thank you ian dvance.

Best,
Fab.

It's used for the additional inforation like frequency, lastmod and
priority.

Your site  gets crawled periodically regardless of sitemap.
If your sitemap has good and valid information about lastmod and
frequency then it will be useful to guide the robot to what's to be
crawled and indexed first.

On 2 juil, 10:33, fablau wrote:

Sitemaps are helping Google to index your site,
but the usual crawling process is still very important
to search results, so you need links and
good site navigation,
with your pages having
as correct as possible (X)HTML code.

It is a good idea to include in your sitemaps all
the URLs you want indexed from your site.
If you want you can have multiple sitemaps
with a sitemap index file as described in
http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#index
and have some sitemaps only with URLs that
do not change often and other sitemaps only with
URLs that change often.

Cristina.

On Jul 2, 3:33 pm, fablau wrote:

As webado says, it's always additional.  Google specifically reserves
the right to continue accessing the site using the techniques it's
used so far, including pages you've defined as <changefreq>never</
changefreq> and with an unchanged lastmod.

Thank you guys, I think to have understood. I will list all the pages
of my site, I think will be better.

Your help has been really appreciated.

Best,
Fabrizio.

On Jul 2, 12:01 pm, Phil Payne wrote: