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Sitemaps: A Google Study

Barry Schwartz encapsulates a study published by Google that goes into details on XML sitemaps. He provides a link, but for those who don't have time to download the PDF document, the post highlights the most interesting findings -- such as, there were 35 million sitemaps published as of October 2008, which include "several billion" URLs. The most popular sitemap formats include XML (77%), Unknown (17.5%), URL list (3.5%), Atom (1.6%) and RSS (0.11%).

Schwartz also writes that the study details how to come up with ways to determine the crawl order, either via sitemaps or Discovery.

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