Johannes Beus
It seems that in recent times, Google Sitemaps, which is already active for more than one and a half years, has become the source for numerous speculations and conspiracy theories. Sometimes the Google Sitemaps registration is linked to PageRank-shifts, at other times, the Google-Tool is blamed for ranking-leaps.
You should see Google Sitemaps for what it is: a technology interface which makes it easier for the searchengine to get an overview of all available documents. While the Googlebot still has to scour the structure of those sites that do not provide a XML-sitemap itself, it can start the crawling for those sites with a supplied Sitemap at any place and the probability that all sites will be included is much better thanks to that.
In recent times, US-blogs have more frequently posed the tip to sign up with the Google-Webmastertools but not submit a Sitemap. This was justified by saying that through the Sitemaps, pages got into the index that would have never been crawled without this assistance since they were missing the internal and external linking. Thanks to Sitemaps, errors in the internal and external linkstructure of a project would be concealed and therefore harder to find. An interesting argument but not a problem of Sitemaps but in the planning of the linking.
If you use Sitemaps you should always keep in mind that you are merely giving the searchenginecrawler hints to (new) pages – an influence on the ranking or a guarantee for the clean indexing of large projects is not associated with it. It is still necessary to have a clean planning of new pages – though errors therein should be looked for within oneself and not with Google Sitemaps.
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