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Old 11-01-2009, 02:24 PM
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Default Site maps and Indexing

Ive read alot of interesting articles on googles indexing standards

but if you submit a site map, and lets say, of a 100 urls, 4 get indexed, is this google narrowing it down to common urls etc ?

E.g. do i have to go through and make my urls more unique ?

this all seemed to happen arround the time of url writes, should i worry any way ? e.g. this is just their site map indexing standard ? but search engines will show up with the separate content based on other things ?
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Old 11-02-2009, 04:22 AM
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Default Re: Site maps and Indexing

Good to meet you NZ...

To be able to help you more effectively, how are you determining the number of pages indexed? You can see different numbers different ways...

As well, Google responds better to inbound links than to submitting sitemaps.

If you can provide more info and perhaps a url, I'd be happy to take a quick peek at it.
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Old 11-02-2009, 04:27 AM
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will do, maybe even add me on jemountfort@hotmail.com or gmail.com as well
and can email directly ?
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Default Re: Site maps and Indexing

Can do that, but I would prefer to post the questions and answers here to provide benefit to all if that is acceptable.
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Old 11-02-2009, 05:06 AM
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that is fine, i will just leave this open, i will start firing through some questions soon, just busy on a development for one of the sites
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Old 11-02-2009, 07:25 AM
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Would it be recomended to have a onsite, site map with anchor tags ? since that google obviously responds to anchor tags better than a xml format site map
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Old 11-02-2009, 09:13 AM
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Default Re: Site maps and Indexing

I have been fiddling around with mod rewrite, and shuffling details into there, and i have managed to create very unique and seo friendly urls for each listing, i suspect that google indexing standards narrows out similar content or urls
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rewrites possible effecting indexing time ? all of this started happening when i was shuffling the urls to make them more friendly, thats when the indexed pages went from 6/10 - 1/10
maybe its just taking a while to index them
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Default Re: Site maps and Indexing

Are you looking at the number of indexed pages via the 'site:mywebsite.com' or are you using Google's Webmaster Tools? Because the Webmaster Tools seems to provide a more accurate number, though it is only updated monthly I believe.
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google web master tools, it dropped from 100 odd indexed, to 4.
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