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Re: How Things Have Changed

David Cramer — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:34:07 -0000

I have noticed increased traffic on keywords which should have been weighted better before.

Re: How Things Have Changed

omtv — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:15:00 -0000

Is it true that after adding a sitemap to Google, the overall rank of pages for the site being displayed in the search result might drop than before?

Re: How Things Have Changed

Harro van der Klauw — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:51:46 -0000

You have to be careful with added google specific stuff to your app, google doesn't like to be fooled and could ban your for serving them something differend then normal users.

But then again.. they shouldn't b*tch about redirects like that...

Re: How Things Have Changed

Kai — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:17:39 -0000

Thanks for sharing this information, esp. your code for sitemaps; I too found that I had no choice but to generate static versions on my site with about 100,000 objects, because Yahoo and Google can easily suck up gobs of memory as they visit the sitemap URL. Not to mention the thrashing that can happen as the server swaps out; talk about an easy DoS attack - which can be partly addressed by using non-standard sitemap filenames.