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    • ditoroin
      ditoroin last edited by

      If I have two links in the sitemap (for example: page1.html and page2.html) but the web-site contains more pages (page1.html,  page2.html and page3.html) is this a sign for Google to not to crawl other pages?

      I.e. Will Google index page3.html?

      Consider that any page can be accessed.

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      • TGOOSE
        TGOOSE last edited by

        Even though you don't mention about page3.html in sitemap, bot's will crawl and index this page.

        When ever a bot come to crawl our site first it will look for Sitemap, because it is a guide line from google to create and submit sitemap to the search engines. So it is nothing but we are providing the total website information in one file. In other terms it is called Search engine friendly.

        And also if bot's encountered any problem while crawling this page3.html then they won't index this page.

        Thank you..

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