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Hello everybody,

my question is really simple: what's the purpose of a sitemap?

It's to help the robots to crawl your website but if you're website has a good architecture, the robots will be able to crawl your site easily!

Am I wrong?

Thank you for yours answers,

Jonathan

No, if you use 301 redirections, you don't have to correct the old pages.

It's says something like that : "Hey Google, doesn't care anymore about this page, this (the new one) is the page to care about. You can transfert PR,... from the old page to the new one"

For me, you've no choice : you've to use 301 redirection from all your old url's to the new one

Look at this WhiteBoard Friday : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

My personal choice is to use one domain per language and I've good result also in country with more than one language like Belgium.

Finally, it seems to be every 1 month and half, two month.

Look on the page's tool : http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Last Index Update: Feb 21th, 2011 Next Index Update: April 2011

I think that the Open Site Explorer is updated every month. It seems to me that I've read it on the seomoz's site but I don't remember where...

Hello,

I live in Belgium and in this country you've 3 languages : french, dutch and german. I've customers from many countries : France, Nederlands,... and for my website in ".be" (we'll say www.mysite.be for example) I've choosen the french language.

My question is can I've the same content on my site : www.mysite.be and www.mysite.fr without duplicate content or should I forgot using www.mysite.fr to avoid the D.C. problem?

And with my site : www.mysite.be should I've more difficult to rank in France for example?

Thank you for your answer,

Jonathan