Gary Illyes from Google mentioned on LinkedIn the opposite day that sitemaps are hints, not orders. That means simply since you submit an XML sitemap file to Google, it doesn’t imply Google will index and rank that content material.
This isn’t a brand new assertion, extra of a PSA, a reminder that Google doesn’t have assured crawling, indexing, or rating of your URLs.
Gary defined, “A sitemap file, as outlined by sitemaps.org, is an effective way to inform engines like google about your web site’s URLs. However that is the place it ends: you inform Steve to learn your sitemap, but when Steve would not belief your web site will delight customers, it will not hassle studying your sitemap.”
Steve is Gary’s hypothetical search engine, for those who had been questioning.
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
