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Nightwatch · 07-14-2008

I agree 100%. Images next to an article never improve a site's ranking in the search engines. Unique and regularly updated content, as a general rule in search engine optimization, is what positively affects ranking of a site.

Sitemaps, too, do not affect ranking directly. Indirectly, yes, for the reason that sitemaps enable the SE bots to crawl a site more efficiently and comprehensively, thereby finding content in its pages which, when fresh and unique, contributes to higher rankings.

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Nightwatch Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 10	Re: Google Myths I agree 100%. Images next to an article never improve a site's ranking in the search engines. Unique and regularly updated content, as a general rule in search engine optimization, is what positively affects ranking of a site. Sitemaps, too, do not affect ranking directly. Indirectly, yes, for the reason that sitemaps enable the SE bots to crawl a site more efficiently and comprehensively, thereby finding content in its pages which, when fresh and unique, contributes to higher rankings.