XML Sitemap Leads to loss in ranking and traffic in Google.

[seosogo]

I have submitted XML sitemap in Google's webmaster tools for some of the categories of my website. after submitting the sitemap i have seen the drop in traffic and ranking of keywords for the categories tof which sitemap was submitted.

The other categories for which i  have  not submitted the sitemap the ranks have not changed.

my sites alexa rank is approx 3000

Please help me out should i remove the site or change the priority of the urls which i have fixed in the sitemap?

[DennisSeymour]

just leave it. Double check for errors on it.

[umerseo]

I believe you should leave the sitemap as it is for now. and Work on improving the quality of your website; The Pages, Design, Link Structure, URLs, Content... I mean everything

Improve the quality score of your pages and your rankings will surely rise again

[seosogo]

hi Dennis

so what do you suggest should i remove the sitemap or  leave the  sitemap as it.

[seosogo]

Hi Mrtijn

the categories are  the top  performing categories from the websites. i have done the keyword tracking the keywords from the categories having the sitemap have gone down. whereas the keywords from the non-sitemap categories have remained stagnant or move up.

[DennisSeymour]

if it was indeed caused by submitting the sitemap, its too late for you to worry about it. My vote, another coincidence. Ive actually experienced this twice and i got my rankings back by analysing where i went wrong with the tech/structure.

With an alexa like that, you probably have a big site. Try to find a "main" problem and fix that first rather than going for different changes all at one time.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

I've seen such behavior before, but I'm also pretty sure that it's not related to just uploading the site maps itself as it's just a signal to Google to where they can find the (new) pages. Are the category pages of low quality or is there something else which could cause this?