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Automate XML Sitemaps
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Quick question, which is the best method that people have for automating sitemaps. We publish around 200 times a day and I would like to make sure as soon as we publish it gets updated in the site map. What is the best method of updating a sitemap so it gets updated immediately after it is published.
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Hi there.
Upon request to sitemap.xml run a let's say sitemap.php or .js or whatever, which would read the directory for new files, then update sitemap.xml. If you're using CMS - then it should have automatically generated sitemap by default. If not - the same idea, just instead of reading directory for rhysical files, read database.
Cheers.
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