I am creating a sitemap.xml and have 28000 Links, I have some doubt in this, that 28000 Links google bot will read all the records or there is any certain limitations for putting records in sitemap.xml.
I am creating sitemap.xml from my own.
can we make sitemap dynamic means if I will add some more pages, that page will automatically add those links, if we are deleting some pages sitemap.xml will automatically will remove that link from the sitemap, so I want to ask here that is there any problem in reading if will do like this…
Actually, each XML sitemap file can take up to 50 000 (and you can link them with sitemap index files if you need more XML sitemap files than one because of the URL limit)
Google Webmaster Tools has quite a few help pages regarding Sitemaps.xml. Many sitemaps can be zipped and included in a single sitemap file. Sitemaps can have any name and Crawlers extract names from your robots.txt file. Google has a test option for sitemap files. After you create your dynamic 28,000 Sitemap link file don’t get upset that Google does not crawl all submitted links
Nicked from GWT:
About Sitemaps
Google doesn’t guarantee that we’ll crawl or index all of your URLs.
Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a capital S—is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.
Google has restriction of having 50,000 url’s in a single sitemap. If your website has more than 50,000 url’s then it is better to create more sitemaps or split sitemaps using categories like this site <snip>
