Sitemap vs No sitemap - the ultimate test - PART 2
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October 2nd, 2010
Last month we posted an article on a generated sitemap
for a very large site (125,000 pages per subdomain),
Read more.
Now a month (almost) has passed, and we are ready to publish the first
results.
See the image with the number of indexed pages per subdomain.
In words: the two top lines are the two subdomains for which
we created and submitted a sitemap. Indexing was fast, within a
week a total of 35,000 pages were in Google's index. For the English subdomain,
which is '
www' (3rd line) it took a week longer to get indexed and it
seems to take more time to get the pages crawled. It now has passed the 5000
line, while the two subdomains are declining. The other lines at the bottom are
the subdomains we did not submit a sitemap for. With just one site tested,
for a very short period, we do not want to give you any hard conclusions,
but our opinion still is: a sitemap helps getting your site indexed.
The fancy graph was generated by Microsoft Excel :-)
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See the image with the number of indexed pages per subdomain.
