Google Sitemap – Like it or not But you Can’t Delete it !!

Click to see the Screen-shot of Google sitemap

Can you see an issue with the stats shown in the screen-shot?These sitemaps are submitted just now but ‘last download’ Date is in the past.Just to let you know, these sitemaps were deleted 6 months back and re-added today.

Whether Google Sitemap benefits your site or not, has been a topic of debate for quite some time now. And there were suggestions from the SEOs that vary from ‘use’ , ‘Don’t use’ & at times ‘Not sure’.

Almost 6 months back, I deleted sitemaps ( or I thought so ) of my site from Google Sitemap ( Webmaster tools ) after having a few issues with the indexing of my website. After that I never tried to add a sitemap till today.

However, when I added those same old sitemaps, the stats shown by the Google tool was a bit surprising.

Why should we think that Google will delete the Sitemap, if we ask it to do so? I think it does not make sense for Google to delete the sitemap from its database it would probably just mark it, so that it appears to be deleted. And Google will keep an eye on those sitemaps as well.

What do you think?Digg It !!

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