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Old 07-16-2005, 09:51 PM
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Default Re: Inherent problems

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Originally Posted by TheWebDoctor(tm)
After a month of using Google Sitemaps, it's provided no real value. In fact, doing an A-B test with two sites launched the same day, the site without the Google Sitemap has found more of its pages in the Google index than the other site.

We're actually expecting the Google Sitemaps to be no more advantageous than the Add URL for Google.
We have a site that has been around since 1998. We've been having trouble getting deep crawls (even with static HTML pages), but it's all indexed now that we gave them a sitemap.xml file. For us, it's been huge.

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