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Originally Posted by mopek1
No I never had an older http sitemap. The word was that they were useless and even a Google exec insinuated they were worthless so I never bothered.
When I search in "G" my site, site:domain .com I get 31k results. So they indexed my whole site, or the sitemap with the https pages. It's just not giving me the traffic yet.
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Sitemaps are useful in that it tells Google what pages and what weighting that page should be assigned relative to your site. It's at Google's discretion whether or not to index that page, but at least you can see a status behind each page submitted as to whether Google opted to include it or not. Even if the value isn't that large, at least Google knows about the page with sitemaps.
WG