Hi,
We go about things a slightly different way to the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. By default we generate a dynamic sitemap whenever a robot visits the sitemap URL. This is actually a feature that Arnee has just added to his Google XML Sitemaps plugin in version 4.0 which was released on March 30th.
Because we dynamically generate the file any time it’s requested we only notify Google and Bing if you click the Update Sitemap button because the sitemap is submitted to them the first time you create it and any time you change a setting so they know it exists and will crawl it when they want to crawl it and based on the frequency that they learn your content is updated.
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Anonymous User 9948090
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Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it.
I noticed too that Google XML Sitemaps plugin developer implemented the same option.
Still I didnt get desired reply. Suppose I activated Sitemap module and it created Sitemap file and submitted to search engines. Now if I post a new topic or modify existing topic, will I need to click Update sitemap button in settings to submit it to search engines or will it be done automatically?
Thanks.
Hi,
No, because you already submitted it to Google and Bing so they already know where to find the sitemap. You don’t have to submit a sitemap to them every single time you make a change to your content. As long as you submit it to them when you first create the sitemap and then whenever you make a configuration change that would affect the contents of the sitemap or you make a major change to the content on your site then you’re fine.
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Anonymous User 9948090
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^^ Thanks again. So we dont need to submit sitemap everytime.
But is there any harm if we click “Update Sitemap” button to submit sitemap to search engines when we update content? I just want to remain on safe side.
There is no harm in doing that, you just don’t need to but you can if you want.
