Made a new discovery about Google... Or did I?

Heres the story.

I was wondering why google was not updating and indexing new pages in my site. I had done a lot of work with backlinking and other methods that normally get pages indexed within a week or so, but for some reason, these weren't .

What I decided to do was make a sitemap, so I logged into google webmasters to upload it and...

It appears that my dumbass uploaded a site map a while ago, however it was full of errors. The logs were showing me that google just re-scanned the sitemap around 14 hours ago, however because the sitemap was broken, I'm assuming it greatly decreased the potential of the natural links on my site to be indexed.

I removed the sitemap and I'm going to see if these pages get indexed. Will post the results.

I suggest everyone using google webmasters goes to check on their sitemaps from time to time. If you get a red X and have errors, take that shit down.

Good luck
-Henry

Your pages will still be indexed if they are not in the sitemap. Ive got some sites where I don't care for SEO as I advertise by other methods and wouldn't really want people coming across them in search engines.

So I have no sitemap, I only link to the page on that site, I do not even add the URL to Google and all my pages still get indexed. I know I can set to noindex but just saying, they will index your pages if they are linked to and you don't have them as noindex.

so whats the new discovery?

Eh. I have no idea where I was going with this

The more I look at my original theroy that broken sitemaps will cause your pages not to get indexed, the more I see how stupid this post was.

I hate it when this happens. It seemed so brilliant when I thought of it :-/

Sorry.

It's still a good idea to check your sitemap often to see what Google likes/dislikes.

kind of a misleading title....