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Is there any difference between ror site map a google sitemap
Ror Sitemap is better than Google Sitemap or Google Sitemap is better than Ror Sitemap?
What do you think?

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Short answer: prefer the standard XML sitemap format used by modern search engines; ROR is an older, alternative XML feed and isn’t the primary sitemap protocol search engines expect. As pointed out, relying on nonstandard feeds risks lower discoverability; ’s tip about making sitemaps discoverable was useful background. (developers.google.com)

Practical checklist for a working sitemap:

  • List only canonical, indexable URLs (no redirects, noindex pages, or session/UTM variants).
  • Keep each sitemap file under the engine limits and split into a sitemap index when needed.
  • Compress with gzip for bandwidth savings and let your CMS/plugin generate the feed if possible.
    These are the core rules engines use when reading sitemaps, and they’re why malformed feeds (for example an RSS-like file used as a sitemap) often lead to many pages not being indexed. (developers.google.com)

Quick troubleshooting (useful for the situation described):

  • Validate the XML (parsing errors will stop processing).
  • Check Search Console / Webmaster Tools for sitemap errors and the Coverage/Index report.
  • Confirm URLs in the sitemap return 200, aren’t blocked by robots.txt, and don’t carry a noindex or canonical pointing elsewhere.
  • If a large site is involved, split into multiple sitemaps and monitor “last read” dates.
    Following these steps usually reveals whether the problem is format-related, access-related, or content/quality-related. (searchenginejournal.com)

Example (minimal) URL entry — include similar entries for each page in your sitemap:

<url>
  <loc>https://example.com/path/page.html</loc>
  <lastmod>2025-12-01</lastmod>
</url>

If there’s no clear gain from ROR on your platform, drop it and serve a correct XML sitemap (and a sitemap index when needed). The standard XML approach gives the best compatibility and the troubleshooting hooks that search engines provide. (developers.google.com)

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Member Avatar for stymiee

ROR sitemaps are completely useless. None of the search engines support them. But they all support the sitemaps.org format. Needless to say you want to use the on they support and ignore the one they don't.

Member Avatar for Dani

Google sitemaps can be found by all engines by referring to them in the robots.txt file. For example, Sitemap: [url]http://www.site.com/sitemap.xml[/url]

Member Avatar for Jhon100

ROR sitemaps are completely useless. None of the search engines support them. But they all support the sitemaps.org format. Needless to say you want to use the on they support and ignore the one they don't.

Thanks for your reply. Another question, Is a good idea have the the two sitemaps Google and Ror on a web?

Member Avatar for stymiee

There is absolutely no reason to have a Ror sitemap at all.

Member Avatar for guinanie

Ror sitemap promotes the concept of structural feeds or in XML format. While Google Sitemap creates a sitemap with HTML and images format

Member Avatar for stymiee

Actually a Google sitemap is in XML and is now the default format for all four major search engines. That's why Ror sitemaps are worthless. It's not only redundant but ignored by the search engines.

Member Avatar for x3mario

Thanks stymiee. Now I know that google sitemap is better that ROR sitemap.

Member Avatar for goyalbb

on our site , google sitemaps page was showing about 25000 pages to be in database, however it had indexed only 6-7000 pages. when we did checking, we noticed that our sitemap format was not exactly as per google specification. it was more of a rss sitemap. we think that xml sitemap is the best of all solution as far as sitemap for search engines is concerned. but there should not be harm in maintaining ror sitemap too, though may not be of much advantage either.

Member Avatar for WebDave

Google Sitemap is the best of all. You need to follow those standards for better results. If not things might get difficult for your website.

Member Avatar for ruelpopo

Is there any difference between ror site map a google sitemap
Ror Sitemap is better than Google Sitemap or Google Sitemap is better than Ror Sitemap?
What do you think?

I think google sitemap si better.

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