Is it bad thing with lots of pages in the sitemaps (3518141)

My sitemap contains 3518141 pages divided on sitemaps with 50000 pages in each. Is this a bad thing, should I exlude some of the pages to try to get the ammount of pages down? Can google see this as bad?

I wouldn't include Showpost pages in your sitemap, and I would also disable rewrites for Showpost and add an exclude for showpost.php in your ROBOTS.TXT.

If you do this, make sure you delete all your current sitemap files before regenerating, since you will have far less created this time and you don't want the old ones sitting out there.

Where do I change this setting easiest? (I use vBulletin 3.0.3)

In vBSEO CP, you can select to replace showpost links with permalink.

robots.txt has to be edited manually.

In your sitemap settings to can choose to not include showpost links.

In general, if you have a lot of content, that is great. However, you can help boost efficiency by getting rid of unnecessary or non-vital stuff like the showpost links example.

If you are including old vBulletin formatted URLs in your sitemap, you can also get rid of those.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

In general, if you have a lot of content, that is great. However, you can help boost efficiency by getting rid of unnecessary or non-vital stuff like the showpost links example.

So a smart thing to do is to exclused show post now, when I feel that I am happy with the indexing, should I turn the showpost on again or will that scre up the work that has been done by google?

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

In vBSEO CP, you can select to replace showpost links with permalink.

Is it "Replace post number with permalink"?

Yes - that is the correct option.

My personal preference is to keep them disabled forever.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Yes - that is the correct option.

My personal preference is to keep them disabled forever.

Ok, thanks.

Im like a child at chritmas hardly getting anything done but this during the workday