Google Sitemaps

[BishopWeber]

Here is my experience with sitemaps:

Originally Posted by BishopWeber

I used sitemaps in a site and it was not indexed for about 6 or 7 month, not a single page. Then someone told me that becouse of the spam, google deindexed sites using sitemaps, so I take off the sitemap and in a few weeks my site was indexed. May be a coincidence, who knows, google acts in strange ways.

But there is other webmasters using sitemaps without problems.
I think that it's better to use some home made html or xml sitemap pages or just a good navigation scheme based on links.