Hi @averypulido
Thanks for using Yoast SEO plugin. The sitemap generated by the Yoast SEO plugin will get updated automatically whenever you publish, modify, or delete any posts. You can also confirm the same on the /sitemap_index.xml, and can read more at our help center.
@josevarghese right that Yoast rewrites the sitemap the moment you publish; the catch is what happens on Google’s side after that. Google retired its sitemap ping endpoint in June 2023, so the ping Yoast used to fire is a no-op now. Google revisits the sitemap on its own cadence (it speeds up if the file changes a lot), and it also reads robots.txt looking for the sitemap URL.
1. Open yourdomain.com/robots.txt in an incognito tab and make sure it contains Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml. Yoast adds that automatically, but a caching plugin can serve a stale copy without it.
2. Bing’s different. Bing leans on IndexNow for fast pickup, and the free Yoast doesn’t fire IndexNow on save. Either Bing’s own IndexNow plugin or Rank Math will handle that; without one, Bing just polls on its own schedule.
If you only publish occasionally, none of this changes Google’s pickup time much vs. letting a normal crawl find the post. Bigger lever in that case is making sure new posts surface on the homepage feed or relevant category archive, so a crawl of those pages turns up the new URL within hours.
