Google sitemap, don’t get caught cheating

I was too excited with sitemap so that I just wrote a simple script to produce the dynamic sitemap and do some .htaccess redirecting. Example;

http://myhostinglist.com/sitemap.xml

My pages were indexed few days after that and it was really cool to witness your new pages with SERP for some keywords. I had second or third position for some hosting search result.

But, I was not aware that some URLs  under the sitemap are pointing to the same content. I mean x,y or z of packages id are pointing to the same ABC hosting.com. And I think that was the reason why my pages was penalized so that no more Good  SERPs for myhostinglist.com. That’s bad.

Resolution;

1. Rewrite the sitemap script.

2. Resubmit to sitemap.

Hopefully the bots will have some mercy on this unintentional so-called errors ;)

Posted July 30th, 2006 by mightyhitter under Google

 

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