Can multiple sitemaps be a website ranking factor?
Posted on March 31, 2010, 1:02 am, by Varun Bihani, under
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We all know there are myriads of factors that determine your search engine rankings today. SEO has now become an art. It is no science anymore. The more experience you got, the more tests you do, the more accurate your future SEO results will be. Thousands of SEO consultants around the world are busy trying different ways to crack the search engine’s algorithms and find out how do search engines rank the websites.
Very recently, I stumbled upon
this article that got me thinking if using mutliple sitemaps can also help boost my rankings? The article talks about how using multiple sitemaps can help you better analyze the number of pages being indexed by search engines, Google in particular. It suggests that you should group your pages into multiple categories for e.g. -
- Blog posts
- Product pages
- Category pages
- Services pages etc.

You can use this sitemap widget to create your website's sitemaps for free!
Once you get this done, create a sitemap that has the links to all the pages for these categories. You will now have better picture of the what type of pages are being accessed by Google crawler and help you filter the low-quality pages from your list. Because that is what will help your pages rank well on search engines. The lower the competition you have the better chances you have to top SERPs. By expunging low-quality pages from your index will help your high-quality pages in getting more recognition.
Again, this is not the fact. It is just a theory that has yet to be tested. Nevertheless, we would certainly like to hear the outcome if you try this method and it gives you any result. Keep following the KPMRS blog for more such buzz!
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What they say about web “5 years back we thought it a medium, not an economy”. I would say that it’s just a myth at present and nobody can be certain either multiple sitemaps are important to rank higher.
If there is a “limit” on the number of URL’s a sitemap can process, then it would make some sense that multiple site maps might, in effect, be a positive ranking criteria.
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