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The Bad effect of Submitting Sitemap frequently?
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Hi Mozzer...
so, i keep thinking of this...
what is the bad effect of submitting the sitemap frequently? is it something like google would smell something suspicious and begin to decrease my website's authority? and is there any supporting articles for it?
my website is an e-commerce website by the way...
so please, help me with this..
Thank you
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superb answer! thank you!
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thank you, good sir!
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well, technically we can submit it as many as we want...
but what's the side effect? that is what i want to know
(and there the good answer in 3rd respone)
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Hi ricoplaza,
There isn't going to be any negative impact but it's also not going to be much benefit to you (if any benefit at all).
Just because you resubmit your sitemap, doesn't mean Google is going to crawl the URLs in your sitemap instantly.
For your e-commerce site, if you are wanting to speed up the indexing of new products or product categories, you can use the 'Fetch as Google' tool in Search Console to request faster indexing.
Also, news sites don't need to resubmit sitemaps to have their content indexed faster. Sites that are in Google news will have a news XML sitemap that is basically a direct feed for Google to index their news content instantly - no need to resubmit sitemaps.
Unless you've made some major structural changes to your site, you don't really need to worry about resubmitting your sitemap.
Cheers,
David
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You can submit sitemaps as often as you like to Google Search Console. Many large scale sites would even be doing so multiple times a day as they publish new articles, add or remove new products, and so on. For example, News Sites have a high touch need for fast crawling (hence AMP and specialized sitemap methodologies) Here's Google's help article on this: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40392
Here's the more generalized version of Sitemap recommendations: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/75712
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I don't believe you can submit it too frequently. I would only do it when there is a change or once-a-month personally though.
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