how often should I redo my sitemap

Posted December 12th, 2009 by Donna

I noticed my site map has a date for when I created the site map. I update my pages regularly should I also be making a new site map regularly so the date is fresh on the sitemap itself?

If I am not adding a new page to the site map, how often should I create and submit a new one?

First off, make sure you have

Luke Brown 2 years 19 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago

First off, make sure you have at least two sitemaps. The xml sitemap is for the search engines and the html sitemap is for your website visitors. You might also consider an ror.xml sitemap as a 'wild card' for the second tier search engines, some of which don't recognize the xml sitemap.

If you add new content regularly, then updating your sitemaps once per month is not out of line. If you're not adding content and you're sure all pages have been indexed, then you don't need to update your sitemaps.

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