Is an xml sitemap good or bad [closed]

Posted by Frederik Heyninck on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Frederik Heyninck
Published on 2012-06-16T09:09:25Z Indexed on 2012/06/16 21:23 UTC
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Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial?

The good:

You provide search engines with all the urls in your site

But, does the search engine search further than the provided urls in the xml site map? If you have a website with a forum does every post need to be in the sitemap?

What if remove the sitemap afterwords, will the search engine need to start over?

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