Can sitemaps hurt your SEO efforts?

[Kristijntje]

Rand Fishkin recently posted an interesting concept on his SEOmoz.org blog about sitemaps. For those of you keeping score at home, a sitemap is a document (typically xml) that sits on your server and helps search engine spiders crawl and index your site. Sounds great, right? Maybe… maybe not. Rand theorizes these sitemaps may actually be bad for your SEO efforts.

Consider this: what if this content - that would otherwise go unindexed- is now indexed but still suffering from whatever problems caused it to not be indexed in the first place. Is it a good idea for content with problems (index-preventing problems) to be indexed just because it was listed in the sitemap? If it’s indexed, how is the webmaster to know it had a problem?...

full article: http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports...d-sitemaps