Comments on: Sitemaps and Internal Links – the 10000 Page Test

By: marck_don

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By: marck_don

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By: David

David — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:42:04 +0000

While its not the post i was originally looking for, it was worth the read as you have highlighted several common issues and how to work through them with a focus around increased conversions/ctr not just rankings.

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:33:00 +0000

@Adam

This was the first time I’ve needed to use multiple sitemaps. I’ve since needed to do so on other client projects as well. I can’t always control the stability of a client web server, so this mitigates Google’s trying to get to them. So I stay ridiculously under the 50,000 URL limit.

By: Adam Melson

Adam Melson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:20:25 +0000

Thanks for the research and posting. It was especially helpful to hear about loading multiple sitemaps, as this is more rare for the sites I’ve worked with. For Yahoo, the engine seems to have a higher threshold for duplicated content on pages and also has trouble accounting for 301s. Some of this was fixed when we all saw some big drops in Yahoo backlinks a few months back, but it still reports some inflated numbers.

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:31:58 +0000

Thanks DiscoStu!

This site is a step by step see how it goes project. Very rare to have such a great opportunity. It’s the only way to see how effective each step is.

The whole Yahoo vs. Google showing X thing is a bit muddy. On the one hand, there could be X URLs in sitemap files. Google will then index all or some of them. They will then display all or some of THOSE in the results on any given day. It does go up and down when I check.

Yahoo seems to give more value to links on pages regardless of a duplicate content issue.

Then again, Many times when I am reviewing client or competitor sites in the Yahoo link: view, I see pages that link back ONLY because of AdSense ads. Isn’t that sweet?

Honestly though, I don’t know enough about the exact cause of how exactly either handles indexing vs displaying in results vs link factoring to speak more accurately on the subject, and thus I invite SEJ readers who have done granular testing on those topics to chime in…

By: DiscoStu

DiscoStu — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:13:37 +0000

Great article, very interesting read…what’s the reason for not including individual facility links in the xml map right away? I’m doing something very similar but the site is much larger than any I’ve ever worked on so it’s presenting me with some challenges.

And about yahoo showing that many pages indexed. Y! shows yellow pages has 47 million pages indexed while site: on G shows 680 K – but they only have 137 xml sitemaps (which cover < 137*50K= 6.85 million links). I don’t know what the actual number of pages is for YP, but 6.85 mil does sound low, and 47 mil indexed sounds v high.

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:06:42 +0000

Eric,

I’m glad you find the article so helpful. I’m not so sure a non-SEO type would be able to undestand some of it. One of my clients read it and said “I understand about as much of this as you probably do about my stitching (She’s a professional quilter). What’s SEO? What’s backlinks?…”

Just sayin…

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:03:48 +0000

This was outstanding. I’ve taken the easy way out with clients when talking about sitemaps. I’ll say “The bigger the site the more a sitemap matters”. But I’m seeing that even small sites, especially if they have poor nav links, can benefit as well. thank you for giving me a new easy way out, as this article is now required reading for my clients :)

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:32:02 +0000

@Anu

Any time I can be of help in motivating others, it’s a good thing!