Elite SEO Dave Naylor was complaining a bit about Google Sitemaps and I've also been unconvinced that sitemaps really does help straighten out ranking confusion. According to Google Sitemaps my old-and-in-need-of-great-repair Airport Directory has some incredibly impressive sitemaps stats (e.g. Sitemaps says I'm number ONE for term "hotels")
Term | Rank
| 1. hotels in new york | 1 | |
| 2. airport codes | 1 | |
| 3. ord | 1 | |
| 4. washington dc | 1 | |
| 5. international airports | 1 | |
| 6. hotels | 1 | |
| 7. ord ohare | 1 | |
| 8. chicago | 1 | |
| 9. houston airport | 1 | |
| 10. airport city codes | 1 | |
| 11. airport maps | 1 | |
| 12. charlotte nc airport | 1 | |
| 13. john wayne airport | 1 | |
| 14. orlando | 1 | |
| 15. las | 1 | |
| 16. airline codes | 1 | |
| 17. city codes | 1 | |
| 18. major airports | 1 | |
| 19. salt lake city airport parking | 1 |
Unfortunately QuickAid.com does not rank for any of these terms. In fact I'm under some form of downranking that means I get little Google traffic at all despite the fact I'm one of the most linked to Airport sites on the web.
I've seen this type of bizarre sitemaps stat for some time so I'm not sure what's going on, though I do have some framed content and this could reflect the rank of sites appearing in the frames.
The good news is that my NMOHWY.com experiment has been languishing but it may be because I failed to load the sitemap when I moved to new server over a month ago. I just loaded it now so hopefully my new pages at NMohwy.com will get indexed soon rather than Google showing the old supplemental pages, using old cache dates of June 2005 and similar.
Joe Duck 