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Partial Sitemaps Impact on SERP

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seosogo last edited by

I have a website having 20 different categories.

But have the sitemap for only 1 category and rest 19 categories will not have the sitemaps will this have an impact on the search results on not
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ReferralCandy last edited by

Sitemaps won't affect your SERP greatly, but it will help to speed up the crawling process on your website. I'm not sure why you have sitemap for only 1 category. For the sake of completeness, why not just have sitemaps for the entire site? Its not that hard to set up a sitemap.
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LesleyPaone last edited by

It will affect the time it takes to get your site indexed. What is the purpose for only sitemapping one category?
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