Hi,

I have been using a free service to generate my XML sitemap for my site, which I use to submit to G sitemaps. When I looked at the sitemap, I noticed that there was a reference to the website at the top of the sitemap like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <!-- Google Site Map File Generated by http://www.Sitemap-Generator-Name.com/ at Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:26:03 +0200
-->
- <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
- <url>
<loc>http://www.My-Domain.com/</loc>

Does the reference to the top have any positive effect on their site, by counting as a link to them in some way?

hi,
u can remove that comment ....this is the out going link for your site .......

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hi,
u can remove that comment ....this is the out going link for your site .......

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<!-- Google Site Map File Generated by http://www.Sitemap-Generator-Name.com/ at Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:26:03 +0200
you should remove this link and use just normal google sitemap.xml as most of the people use it.

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What do you mean "normal google sitemap.xml as most people use it"?

I realize that I can remove the link, but I was wondering if there really is any reason to. Does it benefit the Sitemap generator site, and count as a link from my site to theirs?