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(Entry was posted by Matthew Stuart on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, Saturday, October 5, 2013).

Are ROR XML sitemaps still any use?

Are ROR XML sitemaps still any use?

I`ve read they are, and I`ve read they are not, and I`ve also read that they can be detrimental to SEO because of duplicated content of that in a standard XML sitemap...

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  • Ranu Jain: Hi Mattew,<br /><br />I don&#39;t use ROR sitemaps anymore. They were good at the time they were emerged, gradually they got dumped as there was no such benefit. In fact,  ;people complained that they got into issues with crawling using them.<br /><br />I would say that just use the standard format  ;XML sitemaps. ;<br /><br />Just my 2 cents.
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