<techguyaaron@gmail.com> wrote...
> Yes, something weird indeed. I've found that they've hurt my sites
> (several sites) ranking after I put up the sitemaps. This is
> speculation, but that is what I saw happen after adding sitemaps to
> Webmaster Tools.

If there's a problem with your site - and I don't just mean deliberate
spamming - then submitting a Google site map can make things worse, not
better.

It's like an illegal immigrant asking Immigration to check his forged
papers. Even if he was not aware they were forged.

So problems post-submission should be seen as a message that you have a
problem.
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Andrew
Editor
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