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Should I worry about creating Google Sitemaps for my Genesis websites? Some people say yes, others say they can cause problems. Would like to get a definitive answer from the experts. Thanks!
No. I would submit each URL to GWMT to crawl but sitemaps will only cause duplication problems.
Raven: Assuming you're talking about XML sitemaps and not an HTML sitemap ...
You can use the (newly-named) Yoast SEO plugin to determine which XML sitemaps get created, while also controlling what goes into - and keep out of - those sitemaps.
Pages and posts are probably the only things that you really need to include.
You can also include your blog listing page ... but not if it contains the full content of your posts, since that can cause a duplication issue ... although sometimes it doesn't 🙂
Pages related to taxonomies (tags and categories) and author/user pages are subsets of the main blog listing ... and including them offers no value ... and can be safely excluded.
Yoast SEO also provides the option to exclude pages by their internal identifier if necessary ... while you can also mark pages and posts accordingly so that the search engines are informed about what to do in certain cases.
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