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Message from discussion Can Google confirm on uses of Sitemaps??? Googler JohnMu's insights
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Phil Payne  
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 More options Jun 16 2008, 11:01 am
From: Phil Payne
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 16 2008 11:01 am
Subject: Re: Can Google confirm on uses of Sitemaps??? Googler JohnMu's insights
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>> "On one hand, by giving Google a sitemap file with all the changes,
>> and a list of your most important pages - you are also giving those
>> details to your competitors. Yes, that Sitemap file is public for
>> Google and for your competitors."

He has a point, but we are still in the VERY early days of sitemap
adoption.  Relatively few sites have them, and far fewer have sensible
ones.

I like the robots.txt discovery mechanism.  So far I haven't seen
anyone write a piece of code that scans domains for a robots.txt file
containing a sitemap definition and then uses that for marketing
purposes.

"Dear webmaster@.. - did you know that your sitemap is garbage and the
page you set as highest priority has 1,723 W3C validation errors?"

But I'm thinking about it.


 
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