Can sitemap issues causing ranking problems?

nakamura

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• Jun 1, 2014

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I just saw on the google webmaster tool that two of my pages have few issues with their sitemap.
could this be a reason that these website doesn't get ranked in the top100 or indexed for that keywords?

or doesn't it matter so much?

 

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Ripster

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• Jun 1, 2014

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If Google says that two of your pages is having issues then those two pages may not appear in the SERPs.

 

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bostonlegalfanz

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• Jun 1, 2014

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Sitemap for two pages? Could you elaborate? Do you have crawling or html errors?

 

DiggitySEO

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• Jun 2, 2014

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It's only going to cause an issue with the pages that have a sitemap error. If WMT has a problem with a sitemap for a couple of syntax errors, its not going to put a hampering down on your entire site.