Wacky Google Sitemaps????

[Pokeey]

SEO'ers,

First off give me some slack on the multiple posts. . . I'm just getting "restarted" on my site and noticing things. :eyes:

Who has Google sitemaps?

Who trusts the "Query stats" function?

"Query stats" shows me at #12 for my main kw, which I know isn't the case as I know that I am in the 30'ish range. Heck I even click the links where it says I'm #12 and behold I am not there. :furious:

It also has me at #6 for a competitors term/name (a competitor that sued me too!).

I know it's dynamic and averaged over a few weeks but even Awstats and AXS Visitor Tracking System don't show me that high.

Anybody else notice this phenomenon????

Chris

[Paz]

Hi,

I'm still not sure about the Google sitemap service. Maybe I'd use it for a catalogue site with 1'000s of dynamic pages. I also think the analytical features might be useful, as well as the opportunity to get a "friendly" warning if your site accidentally breaks any of the Google guidelines for webmasters.

The thing is, I've heard of a lot of second hand accounts from people (sister's cousin's boyfriend etc.) who've had problems after using the Google sitemap service.

But apparently Google's broken anyway:
http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/thread12222.html

so these reported problems are probably not directly related to Google sitemaps.... :rolleyes:

Cheers,
Paz.

[Pokeey]

Paz,

But apparently Google's broken anyway:
http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/thread12222.html
|| so these reported problems are probably not directly related to Google sitemaps....

Could be. . . But some things are supposed to be fixed:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/googleseo

Who the heck knows anymore, ya know?? :rolleyes:

Chris

[Paz]

[QUOTE=Pokeey]Paz,
Could be. . . But some things are supposed to be fixed:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/googleseo
Who the heck knows anymore, ya know?? :rolleyes:
Chris[/QUOTE]

Hmmmm....

I read that blog, and it hasn't really made me feel any better:
The team refreshing our supplemental results checked out feedback, and on May 5th they discovered that a “site:” query didn’t return supplemental results. I think that they had a fix out for that the same day. Later, they noticed that a difference in the parser meant that site: queries didn’t work with hyphenated domains. I believe they got a quick fix out soon afterwards,

OK, they've fixed the hyphenated domain problem - but what else have they missed...

Cheers,
Paz.

[AllsoppG]

[QUOTE=Pokeey]SEO'ers,

First off give me some slack on the multiple posts. . . I'm just getting "restarted" on my site and noticing things. :eyes:

Who has Google sitemaps?

Who trusts the "Query stats" function?

"Query stats" shows me at #12 for my main kw, which I know isn't the case as I know that I am in the 30'ish range. Heck I even click the links where it says I'm #12 and behold I am not there. :furious:

It also has me at #6 for a competitors term/name (a competitor that sued me too!).

I know it's dynamic and averaged over a few weeks but even Awstats and AXS Visitor Tracking System don't show me that high.

Anybody else notice this phenomenon????

Chris[/QUOTE]

happening exactly the same for me mate

[kma9090]

Blimey, Google sitemaps really sucks..
These are the problems I have with it:

As you mentioned the query stats, mine are still showing the same keywords months later..
It tells me Google last updated my page on: Some old date.. however if I view the cache it is wrong.
Adding a sitemap does not increase the number of pages indexed..
In fact it can cause your site to lose pages..