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Linda, I'm not sure this is the right place to put this, but what do you think of sitemaps? I've heard all sorts of conflicting information. Some seem to think it will help you to get your whole site indexed, and then others seem to beleive they have been penalized for having them and are taking the sitemaps back off.
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Up to now have experienced nothing but help from the sitemaps (Google sitemaps) with over 6 months of actively using them. Big help with indexing. But sitemaps love if your site gets some fresh content on regular basis - they *love to see* the work on the site.
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Google does NOT like a sudden influx of 1000s of links and it can get you banned.
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100% sure no good. Think of it. Can a natural business get so many links that quickly? It can, if the business is well-known and promotes something like crazy. And if Google goes to your site and sees that hm, these guys are not BMW or WorldCup site, I don't trust that they could get 1000s of links within few days naturally => they are spamming.
I am not talking about your site, but talk they way Google can see that. I would suggest staying under 100 per week. And surely the links
MUST BE RELEVANT, otherwise this is suicide and you get to the top only for a short split of a second.
