Updating Sitemap??

by goneebo

Posted: 14 years ago 5 replies

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?

#sitemap #updating

uumair 14 years ago

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
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samual james 14 years ago

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
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nicktyler 14 years ago

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.
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FaBiz 14 years ago

Hi goneebo,

do you have your website on Wordpress?

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

FaBiz
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keven brown 14 years ago

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.
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