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07-06-2005
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Google Sitemaps One Month Later
Well we know it appears to index pages faster then just waiting, but are we seeing any down falls or other positives from Google Sitemaps?
Is there any Google sneakiness going one as all us SEOers give them lists of our SEOed sites. Thoughts? 
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#2
07-06-2005
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Index pages faster? Are you certain?
I read this on seo-scoop.com:
"However, for the life of me, I cannot get it indexed at all in Google. I've got good links pointing to it from well-ranked, indexed, on-topic pages. I even created a Google sitemap, which has been spidered hundreds of times by Google. Still...not a single page indexed by Google. "While I haven't tested this myself (or waded through all the posts in the Google Sitemaps Group), are you certain that Google Sitemaps does index pages faster than just waiting? Thanks in advance for your info! Natasha "The Girl From Marketing" Robinson
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07-07-2005
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I have heard that absolutely new sites are getting indexed.... couple of friends used the sitemap submitter for their new projects and got a solid response... now I am waiting to see if that is just the initial presence that Google sometimes gives as a welcome or if this could be a way to avoid the box....
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#5
07-07-2005
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It took about 2 weeks to see any of the pages from my sitemaps being crawled that were not already in the index. The past few days though, I have seen Googlebot indexing pages from my sitemaps.
I have a site that is about 5 years old, but never have had any sort of sitemap. I have about 80,000+ dynamic pages. Google now shows 54,000+ pages most just show the URL and nothing else with a site: search. I recently redesigned the site look and structure and put 301 redirects from the old pages that changed to the new ones.
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07-07-2005
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Amazing!
Something else that appears to be cool with Google sitemaps is tht it appears to take pages out of the supplemental results. I just recently added a sitemap for one of my sites that was fully in the supp index and a few days later half the pages got taken out.
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07-07-2005
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07-07-2005
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This one is well worth running some tests on....
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#9
07-07-2005
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#10
07-08-2005
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Domian Sitemap.xml submitted to Google 15-06-05 site:www.Domian .co.uk 649 from www.Domian .co.uk - 15-06-05 Many of these links are from old site 300 urls added for new site using sitemap.xml 512 from www.Domian .co.uk - 20-06-05 During Google result testing could not find any old indexed web pages from the old web site e.g. old games pages (100s). 588 from www.Domian .co.uk - 22-06-05 638 from www.Domian .co.uk - 27-06-05 1,210 from www.Domian .co.uk – 4-07-05 * *This final result was a surprise as a lot of the old sites indexed pages are back in the results! I am investigating this at the moment (luckily I have these old pages covered by usuing a cool 404 page). More news as it happens!
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07-08-2005
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As soon as the Sitemap program was launched we started developing a script for a directory that would list all of the newly submitted topics. I thought it would be a great way to get new submissions in Google faster and deeper topics, not easily reached by Google cached. We have closely monitored the results and have been very impressed. I get Google alerts on test submittals in as little as 24 hours. It doesn’t necessarily mean however that the sites are cached by Google that fast, but the vast majority of the new submissions are getting crawled by the Googlebot right away. A process that normally took many days to weeks with deep category submissions. In my opinion it’s one of the best tools Google has come out with in years.
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07-08-2005
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Google Sitemaps work better than expected
It works better than expected. I've managed to get even orphans fully indexed within 4 days (that was an experiment). Once Google trusts a sitemap, it gets downloaded frequently, without resubmissions, and Googlebot crawls all new and updated pages harvested from the sitemap. Time-to-index has been improved to a great degree. URL-only listings have vanished, the same goes for most supplemental results. No flaws as far as I can see, congrats Google!
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07-08-2005
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Supplemental Results
A few of you mention supplemental results. Where do these appear and why do you want Google to remove them? Are these outdated results sitting in their cache? Our site has several no longer existent pages that are still sitting in Google's cache. Will submitting via Google's Site Map fix this problem?
ocmaven
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07-08-2005
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What are Google Supplemental Results
More: These pages in the supp index do not help your overall rankings and seem to not be indexed on a regular basis until Google sitemaps came along it appears. Why are they bad? More
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#15
07-12-2005
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Results update: 734 from site:www.domain .co.uk – 12-7-05 Dropped 500 old pages?
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#16
07-12-2005
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#17
07-13-2005
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When doing a search or doing a site:www.yoursite.com in google there will be green writing that shows the url on the results pages. If you see "supplemental results" in green then that url is in the supp index.
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#18
07-14-2005
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Why do you think that pages in the supplemental index do not help your rankings? Are you saying that you think the links on those pages are not counted by Google or....?
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#19
07-14-2005
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cheers Andy
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#20
07-14-2005
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There are old pages that never get put in the supp index, but that is because they are linked to from other sources and/or you might do a global footer change and make the page modified date new again. Quote:
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