Does re-submitting your sitemap cause a massive traffic spike? What's your experience?
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Was the traffic spike only from google or some other source? If the pages were about "news" or other current events, they also could have triggered fresh crawling/results this is usually indicated by a date in the SERP's. These fresh results drop off if Google doesnt see any signals of quality (ie links) or signals of negative quality (ie back to google and click another result).
generally I reccomend clients have multiple sitemaps, one of which is limited the 100 or so newest or recently updated pages.
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In short, yes, it's possible, but unless can attribute it to a dominant referral, or a massive increase in SEO attributes (links), a SiteMap shouldn't cause that type of spike.
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If they did one thought I have is out the dates on the sitemap. Google loves having the most recent content, if for instance the dates on the sitemap for the individual pages reflected the date of the creation of the sitemap instead of the date of the creation of the pages, google would see all the content as brandnew and give it priority. At least untill it realized that the content was not all new, which could explain why the traffic went back down.
I can't be sure that is the case, but its an thought.
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However, I don't run a news portal like Mahalo.com.
I think that Siliconskater hit it on the head mentioning that Mahalo may have been quickly indexed and after running through the algorithms has fallen off or been categorized correctly. I have experienced this myself when I've put large amounts of data online all at one time. Traffic goes up, gets sorted, goes down.
The real key to uncovering an answer to this question will come from your analytics. Combining those specific results with the timing of what was going on in development and on the site itself could lead to a concrete answer.
If the sitemap was the only thing that changed, then it must have been the source of the spike.
I might also have a quick look at how many new members registered before and after the spike / downtime. If some of your marketing efforts suddenly took effect, then the registration process and natural traffic could be to blame.
I'm an I.T. pro with specific experience solving the problems of traffic intensive sites.
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