Updating Sitemap??

[goneebo]

I have a site with over 350 pages.... everytime i add new pages should i delete the old xml site map and add a new one?

does this hurt rankings?

[uumair]

update ur sitemap at google analytics, it updates the previous version or install plugin 'google xml sitemap' if u have a wordpress blog this updates the sitemap after every 15 min. This improves ranking

[samual james]

i dont think you need to update it every time you add a webpage but update your sitemap in a week and resubmit it to google webmaster

[nicktyler]

Resubmit on a regular basis to WMT. 15 mins is probably overkill but if you are creating lots of new pages all the time then you should resubmit often.

[FaBiz]

Hi goneebo,

do you have your website on Wordpress?

Then just get Google XML Sitemaps plugin and you are fine.

FaBiz

[keven brown]

Originally Posted by goneebo

I have a site with over 350 pages.... everytime i add new pages should i delete the old xml site map and add a new one?

does this hurt rankings?

That is not a good way to do it. It breaks the trust of site with Google Bot. When you recreate a sitemap, last modiefied date of all urls gets changed. Got it?. You should only update the last modified date of a page in the sitemap when you actually update that page. When you create a new URl, just add it in the sitemap with correct last modified date.