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Resubmit sitemaps on every change?
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Hello Mozers,
Our sitemaps were submitted to Google and Bing, and are successfully indexed. Every time pages are added to our store (ecommerce), we re-generate the xml sitemap.
My question is: should we be resubmitting the sitemaps every time their content change, or since they were submitted once can we assume that the crawlers will re-download the sitemaps by themselves (I don't like to assume).
What are best practices here?
Thanks!
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Great follow up! Thanks for that. :^)
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For anybody that is interested in knowing, after 10 days of webmaster monitoring, here are our conclusions:
We have 2 sitemaps (2 languages). It took a few days for Google to re-download the mains sitemap, and a few more days to download the secondary sitemap, however, the new sitemaps were both picked up by Google with no intervention on our part.
Bing, however, has still no downloaded either of the updated sitemaps.
Because it's so easy and isn't seen as bad practice, we will be manually re-submitting sitemap updated to both search engines.
Thanks!
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Ryan gave an excellent answer. Google is using other clues to pick up on new pages I'm not saying don't submit your sitemap I'm just saying add structured data/schema into your store as well. Check your crawl budget and see if your site is eating up too much of it and not being indexed properly by Google.
A simple test to see if something is being blocked is to run your site through https://varvy.com/
If you do not know, I would stress using Deep Crawl or screaming frog SEO spider
Navigation Is often one of many can cause problems where your site will not be crawled correctly.
To determine whether or not you have to crawl budget issue we got each can make independent image sitemaps and index sitemaps as well just to be sure that Google is getting what you want to.
Like Ryan said check out
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669
Here is a Magento dynamic site map http://i.imgur.com/QKS0bgU.png
validate your sitemap check it for problems
http://tools.seochat.com/tools/site-validator/
https://a-moz.groupbuyseo.org/learn/seo/schema-structured-data
http://www.searchmetrics.com/news-and-events/schema-org-in-google-search-results/
https://blog.kissmetrics.com/seo-for-marketplaces-ecommerce/
JSON-LD Microdata
https://builtvisible.com/micro-data-schema-org-guide-generating-rich-snippets/#json
I hope this helps,
Thomas
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Hello. You can check the Submitted vs Indexed count within Search Console to see whether or not your regenerated sitemap is being picked up already, but resubmitting a sitemap isn't an issue, and fairly easy to do, per Google:
Resubmit your sitemap
- Open the Sitemaps report
- Select the sitemap(s) you want to resubmit from the table
- Click the Resubmit sitemap button.
You can also resubmit a sitemap by sending an HTTP GET request to the following URL, specifying your own sitemap URL: http://google.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/my_sitemap.xml
Via: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669 Also from a FAQ in the Webmasters blog they state that, "Google does not penalize you for submitting a Sitemap."
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