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    • EricPacifico
      EricPacifico last edited by

      I have a Drupal site that utilizes Solr, with 10 menu pages and about 4,000 pages of content. Redoing a few things and we'll need to revamp the sitemap. Typically I'd jam all pages into a single sitemap and that's it, but post-Panda, should I do anything different?

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      • RyanKent
        RyanKent last edited by

        Every page of your site that you wish to be indexed should be included in the sitemap you submit to search engines.

        If there are pages on your site that are questionable due to duplicate content or thin content issues, those pages should either be removed or have the noindex meta tag added, then excluded from the sitemap.

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        • Francisco_Meza
          Francisco_Meza @RyanKent last edited by

          Maybe even a robots.txt for a particular page like "advanced catalog" for ecommerce sites.

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