Question: About submitting a sitemap to Google

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Hello warriors,

When you have a new wordpress blog set-up at what point do you submit your sitemap to Google? I have just finished customising the themes on two of my new blogs, both blogs have very little content, just one post, a contact, privacy and about page. Should I submit the sitemaps now or wait until I have more content?

Samuel.
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  • Profile picture of the author mpruben
    Once you submit the sitemap it will be picked up periodically so it's no problem to submit it early. You can also just add it to your robots.txt file for googlebot to find.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Don't submit your site to Google. Instead, allow Google to find it naturally through links you build to your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author johnlagoudakis
      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      Don't submit your site to Google. Instead, allow Google to find it naturally through links you build to your site.
      I have heard others give this advice also but I'm curious to know why it is better to do it this way. What's the difference?
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      • Profile picture of the author samuelbell
        Originally Posted by johnlagoudakis View Post

        I have heard others give this advice also but I'm curious to know why it is better to do it this way. What's the difference?
        me too, I thought you had to submit a sitemap to be indexed, but I must be wrong.
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      • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
        Originally Posted by johnlagoudakis View Post

        I have heard others give this advice also but I'm curious to know why it is better to do it this way. What's the difference?
        In my testing I found that when a new .com domain was submitted via Google webmaster tools it took between 7-14 days to get indexed while a domain that was pinged and submitted to various social bookmarking sites was indexed within 24-48 hours. I also found that submitted sites did worse in ranking for their target keywords but this could be due to other factors.
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        • Profile picture of the author TheGodfather
          Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

          In my testing I found that when a new .com domain was submitted via Google webmaster tools it took between 7-14 days to get indexed while a domain that was pinged and submitted to various social bookmarking sites was indexed within 24-48 hours. I also found that submitted sites did worse in ranking for their target keywords but this could be due to other factors.
          I have pinged, social bookmarked, promoted it via directories, created some web 2.0 sites that point to my site, posted articles etc... and it's still isn't indexed.

          Sure some of my work is starting to get indexed and is indexing quite poorly (although i did get a positive "jump" for about +170 places for one link). It has passed more then 48 hours and my domain is still not visible in google.

          Maybe their working on a new algorithm for the bot and their upgrading it these last few days... who knows....
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    • Profile picture of the author TheGodfather
      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      Don't submit your site to Google. Instead, allow Google to find it naturally through links you build to your site.
      same here, what's the difference?

      Or are u guys just so afraid of google that you are to scared to submit a site there afraid that you might f**k things up?
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  • Profile picture of the author EaglePiServ
    While Google should automatically find you through your links, you should submit a sitemap if your site becomes large (i.e multiple pages). Google themselves say that a sitemap will help them find pages on your site the they wouldn't otherwise discover.

    You should not submit a sitemap, however, if your site has flawed navigation issues, broken links or other bad design issues.

    You say your site is small so these issues probably don't apply for now.

    Also, you should have a reason to submit sitemaps. Why do you want to? I'm assuming it's because you are not getting indexed. Some decent linking should solve that within about 7 days.
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    • Profile picture of the author samuelbell
      Originally Posted by EaglePiServ View Post

      Why do you want to? I'm assuming it's because you are not getting indexed. Some decent linking should solve that within about 7 days.
      Thanks for the info, my sites are new and the domains are less than one week old, thats why I was thinking about submitting a sitemap.
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  • Profile picture of the author bally chohan
    I think you should post some more content tha you should submit the sitemap..
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