how often do I submit sitemap to GSC?

monere · Sep 3, 2020

Hi,

I decided to create 1 post / day for 2 of my websites, and I would obviously want ALL of these posts indexed by google ASAP.

So, should I (re)submit the sitemaps of the 2 sites every day (after the posts get published on the sites), or should I submit the sitemaps weekly, or should I not submit them at all and just let google discover those posts whenever wherever? Which one of these 3 options is the safest way to have my posts indexed?

SagarVerma · Sep 3, 2020

I suggest - do it weekly. If you are adding content daily.

Nishdibar · Sep 3, 2020

monere said:
not submit them at all and just let google discover those posts whenever wherever

Unless you are facing index issues. If you have any indexing issues you can do it weekly once.

Twirelex · Sep 3, 2020

You can submit the posts alone for indexing

Mr Positive · Sep 3, 2020

Only once you can always manually crawl them

monere · Sep 3, 2020

SagarVerma said:
I suggest - do it weekly. If you are adding content daily.

ok

Nishdibar said:
Unless you are facing index issues. If you have any indexing issues you can do it weekly once.

not having any indexing issues. Well, one of my sites has 6 posts and only 5 show in the index, but I don't consider that an indexing issue...not a major one, anyway. I'm thinking that with constant resubmitting of the sitemap it will eventually index.

Anyway, weekly it will be. That was my thought, too, but I needed confirmation

Twirelex said:
You can submit the posts alone for indexing

what? How can I do that??

Mr Positive said:
Only once you can always manually crawl them

how do I manually crawl them? It's the googlebot that does the crawling, not me

Trolling4Dollars · Sep 3, 2020

First of all, you have absolutely no control over how often google crawls your site or how fast something gets indexed. Short of you rooting one of their servers & running "$ crawl-my-site-now".

Submitting a sitemap more than once sounds like a monumental waste of time. Unless the sitemap URL changes, I don't see the need or benefit. In fact, if I were google, I'd be kind of pissed that you were doing it.

Use that time to write more content.

monere · Sep 3, 2020

Trolling4Dollars said:
First of all, you have absolutely no control over how often google crawls your site or how fast something gets indexed. Short of you rooting one of their servers & running "$ crawl-my-site-now".

Submitting a sitemap more than once sounds like a monumental waste of time. Unless the sitemap URL changes, I don't see the need or benefit. In fact, if I were google, I'd be kind of pissed that you were doing it.

Use that time to write more content.

it's not like copy/pasting an URL and hitting the submit button is taking away from my content writing time (it's a mater of seconds). So, how do you do it if you don't mind me asking? You never resubmit your sitemap after you post new content, or you submit it regularly, too?

GrizzlyBeardMan · Sep 3, 2020

Submit just once, it will get re-crawled periodically. If you want to get specific pages indexed faster, push them through the inspection tool for indexing.

Starblazer · Sep 3, 2020

You should only submit your sitemap once and Google keeps refreshing when it crawls your site and finds your sitemap updated. Now, how often Google crawls your site depends on the frequency of your posting. If you submit 1 post/day, then Google crawls your site twice a day. If you keep removing and adding the same sitemap again and again, Google may ghost your site for a while considering that you have some problem with your sitemap that you keep replacing it.

monere · Sep 3, 2020

GrizzlyBeardMan said:
Submit just once, it will get re-crawled periodically. If you want to get specific pages indexed faster, push them through the inspection tool for indexing.

Never thought about that

Pavan Teja 1 said:
You should only submit your sitemap once and Google keeps refreshing when it crawls your site and finds your sitemap updated. Now, how often Google crawls your site depends on the frequency of your posting. If you submit 1 post/day, then Google crawls your site twice a day. If you keep removing and adding the same sitemap again and again, Google may ghost your site for a while considering that you have some problem with your sitemap that you keep replacing it.

I see...

Ok, fellas. A BIG thank you for clearing up the confusion in my head. I know what to do now. You can stop replying if you want. If not, no problem with me

Peace!

bartosimpsonio · Sep 3, 2020

Do you have access to your server logs?

Check if googlebot is crawling your site.

If it is, then it's no use resubmitting.

monere · Sep 3, 2020

bartosimpsonio said:
Do you have access to your server logs?

Check if googlebot is crawling your site.

If it is, then it's no use resubmitting.

by "server logs" you mean AWSTATS?

bartosimpsonio · Sep 3, 2020

monere said:
by "server logs" you mean AWSTATS?

No, the raw logs

E.g. access_log and error_log

Trolling4Dollars · Sep 3, 2020

monere said:
You never resubmit your sitemap after you post new content, or you submit it regularly, too?

No. One & done.

monere said:
by "server logs" you mean AWSTATS?

# less /var/log/apache2/access.log |grep google

Which should show you

162.158.79.108 - - [03/Sep/2020:04:43:37 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 1199 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

monere · Sep 3, 2020

Trolling4Dollars said:
No. One & done.

ok

bartosimpsonio said:
No, the raw logs

E.g. access_log and error_log

this is all I can see in my cpanel. Not sure which ones you are referring to (probably ERRORS, but don't know what the "access_log" is)

Ranking Expert · Sep 3, 2020

Only one time, and when you submit post on your site also share on social sites like: facebook, twitter.

bartosimpsonio · Sep 3, 2020

monere said:
ok

this is all I can see in my cpanel. Not sure which ones you are referring to (probably ERRORS, but don't know what the "access_log" is)

View attachment 144956

Raw access

monere · Sep 3, 2020

Ranking Expert said:
Only one time, and when you submit post on your site also share on social sites like: facebook, twitter.

oh, never thought about social media. Yeah....

bartosimpsonio said:
Raw access

thanks! Will check it out... for the 1st time in 12 years since I've been doing online marketing

)

bartosimpsonio · Sep 3, 2020

monere said:
oh, never thought about social media. Yeah....

thanks! Will check it out... for the 1st time in 12 years since I've been doing online marketing )

Nice. Good luck mate.

Now delete that screenshot, it reveals too much about you.

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