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From: cristina

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 07:51:03 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, Jul 3 2008 12:51 am

Subject: Re: What if my SiteMap includes just those pages updated frequently?

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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:

> 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.

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