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"It is almost unheard of to build a new web site and not launch with a basic XML Sitemap for better search visibility.But most experienced SEOs know that it is not really needed for all sites, especially smaller sites.Today, we have Google backing that up in a Google Webmaster Help post.Googler, John Mueller said:With a site of that size, you don't really need a Sitemap file, we'll generally be able to crawl and index everything regardless. Also, with such a small Sitemap file, you can just check the individual URLs to see if they're indexed like that.John from Google is making two points here.(1) Google should have no problem indexing a small web site without a sitemap, so it isn't necessary to spend the time making one.(2) If you are using the Sitemap approach to check index count, that too is a bit worthless in that small sites are easy to check how many pages are indexed by just typing in the URL of the page into Google.It doesn't mean a sitemap file for a small site is hurtful, it just means it is not required or necessary.Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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