Sitemaps will not help your site be indexed or increase your page rank but they are important if you want your pages to be discovered fast.

Common Misconceptions about Sitemaps: Page Rank

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Misconception #3 - Sitemaps and Page Rank

Sitemaps will help your page rank. This statement just isn’t true. Sitemaps are created and maintained simply because it helps give search engines information they need to crawl your website. They do not influence your page rank whatsoever.

Misconception #4 - Sitemaps are not really important.

In my previous post I mentioned how sitemaps ONLY help in the discovery of your webpages AFTER your site has already been indexed. I emphasize the word ONLY because you might get the wrong idea that sitemaps are not that useful after all, which would lead to another new misconception. Sitemaps may not be essential to get your website indexed nor will it help your page rank go up but you should never underestimate the effects of having your webpages indexed faster. Anyone who’s in business knows that the longer you put off opening your shop (when everything else is ready), the more money you lose. The same is true with websites. The longer it takes for ALL your webpages to be indexed the longer it takes for your page rank to go up. What this means is that the longer it will also take for you to get more traffic from search engines. Though sitemaps might not determine page rank the discovery of your pages is important for them to even be ranked at all and contribute to your entire website’s value.

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