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by simpleenigma
5704 days ago
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I've been working on an e-commerce project for a client that ended up having some major issues with database imports and the client wanted results now. Anyway, we got all of the items online and in Google with sitemaps, but the links were orphans ... You could find them in the built in site search and from a Google search, but not through any link path ... After about 2 or 3 months like this we started to see the traffic going down and the item pages were getting de-indexed. Since we fixed the import (and internal politics) problem (about 6 months after de-indexing) we have seen a steady increase in traffic again and the number of indexed pages is going up slowly ... very slowly ... My take on this experience is that you need to have some sort of click-able link path to get to your content or any gains you might get from a sitemap will be taken away ... Sitemaps might get your pages crawled faster, they may even get into the index faster .. .but to keep them there you need good site structure ... It is a tool and won't fix design problems ... |
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