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Old 12-12-2006, 05:07 PM
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Hi. I tried this sitemap setup on one of our own sites the very same day it was announced. The site www.activemarbella.com has been nr 1 to 3 for at least two years, but the day after we added the sitemap it was not to be found anywhere on Google. A few days later the same happened on Yahoo. So I throw the sitemap away and deleted the connection in Google tools. Today a few weeks later I'm finally back on top again using my plain Meta tags. So don't buy anything you see, make sure it works first.
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Sorry!! It should have been posted in this forum: http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=69703
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Old 12-12-2006, 11:54 PM
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The Sitemaps.org deal (I'm assuming this is what you're talking about) is basically for sites that are having trouble getting all of their pages indexed. If you don't have a problem with that (assuming not since you were getting top rankings), then you really shouldn't have a reason to use it.

It's also possible that there was some sort of a syntactical error in the file, making it drop portions of your site from the index. You always want to make sure you get the file to validate using the available tools. Errors in that file can indeed cause problems.

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Old 12-13-2006, 10:17 PM
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Or all of it could be pure coincidence.
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