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Updating Sitemap
Averytime I add a new page to the site for example blah-blah-blah.html should I update the site map through Google console?
What’s the best practise for keeping Google up to date with the new pages.
Jack
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9 Replies
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You should update the site map each time you add a new page. Google will check the last update then crawl the new pages automatically.
I’m assuming that submitting a new sitemap in the Google Console no longer makes a difference any more, but I also have not specifically checked.
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Rankmath has a new tool called instant index, or something, can’t remember. And toast does something similar.
Plugins autoupdate your sitemap and pin Google and Google crawl your site.But I always do that and then go to search console and use “inspect URL” just to be sure, if after a day it is not indexed, I do it manually.
But just for small sites or very important landing.
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Yes, you have to update everytime when you updated new page on your site.
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If there’s a page you want indexed immediately, you can fetch the page from `URL inspection` in GSC and submit it for indexing from there. Resubmitting the sitemap is not necessary – Google will naturally check it with enough frequency.
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If you not making use of a CMS that does it for you, then yes… update it in Seach Console with every new URL addition.
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Thanks everyone ??
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The comments are surprising to me. Isn’t the purpose of sitemap.xml to notify google and others about the presence of new pages the next time they crawl the site?
Is there a benefit of asking google to crawl your site via submitting a new sitemap.xml rather than waiting for the next “regularly” scheduled crawl?
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You don’t have to worry about this. Crawlers will find it. But you can always resubmit in search console.
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Summary:
If the new page is linked in the menu or a high priority page, dont worry about it, google will find it just by crawling your page through interlinks.
If you are on a CMS there are plugins to automatically update your sitemap.
If you are not on a CMS, there are services like xml-sitemap that will crawl your site continuously and so long as the page is linked somewhere, they will find it and update the sitemap for you and re-submit to Google.
Hope this helps.
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