Nope. It MIGHT help if your navigation structure is problematic for SE user agents.Site Maps, as people have stated, allow the google bot to crawl your website more easily and therefore get indexed quicker.
That is ONLY if the "site map" is HTML using "real links". XML site maps, which is the topic of this thread, do NOT create "clickable" links.It will also ensure that google will be able to see all the pages on your website and mena that all apges are within 2 clicks of your homepage (if the sitemap is on the homepage).
Nope! An XML site map is a "kludge" for poor or "uncrawlable" site navigation.This is a technicality though - it is more for ease of being indexed due to Google being able to crawl pages easily.
might be a bit of a clue.submitting a site map
Purely??? Again, for someone who nit-picks and is very head strong, WRONG.An xml site map is nothing at all to with optimisation, it is PURELY to cover up a poor or complex navigational structure.
Oh please, do stop talking complete bollocks just because your head is up your own rectum and you think I know nothing.Purely??? Again, for someone who nit-picks and is very head strong, WRONG.
From Google:
Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:
•Your site has dynamic content.
•Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process—for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images.
•Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
•Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.
Google doesn't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs. However, we use the data in your Sitemap to learn about your site's structure, which will allow us to improve our crawler schedule and do a better job crawling your site in the future. In most cases, webmasters will benefit from Sitemap submission, and in no case will you be penalized for it.
So saying sitemaps do not provide any SEO purposes is just bad information. And why nock a guy(or girl) who found an old post they felt they could add to??
I believe that is rather similar to what Google do say which you thoughtfully provided, that actually goes to disprove your point.An xml site map is nothing at all to with optimisation, it is PURELY to cover up a poor or complex navigational structure.
Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process