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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
One easy "why not" is the fact that Google openly states that they do not like people 'optimizing for Google'. Funny then that they would create a section called WEBMASTER TOOLS that asks you to self identify yourself as someone actively trying to optimize for Google.
Every single page on a blog is interlinked to death and found .2 seconds after you post. Sitemaps are worthless unless you are doing something off the wall and / or shady.
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So have you noticed Sitemap causing harm to a blog? I haven't. If google doesn't like people adding sitemaps, why have it available? I use sitemaps and I've always gained lots of traffic with Panda updates so I guess they must not hate it to much.
Straight 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.