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Just wondered about what you all do?
I am constantly updating our website in my job on a daily basis.

* Updating new products
* Removing obselete products
* Updating pages for SEO

I have the Sitemap.xml file configured for Google through the Webmaster Tools, the URLLIST.TXT file for Yahoo, and continually
monitor my webmaster tools account for error 404 pages, etc.
How often do you upload the sitemap? At the moment I can
update/upload this sitemap 3-5 times per day.
Should I just be limiting this to once a day? Or even once ever other day?

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As asked, this boils down to two things: how often your site actually changes, and how you signal those changes. Automating sitemap generation (the approach and leaned toward) is the usual answer for a site you edit daily — but “automate and be honest” is the rule: update the sitemap when content truly changes, then let Search Console / the engines pick it up instead of repeatedly re‑uploading an unchanged file. See Google’s Sitemaps guidance for when to resubmit and how Search Console treats sitemap reads. (). ()

Practical rules that prevent wasted crawls and noisy signals: include only canonical, indexable URLs (no redirects, noindex, or soft 404s); keep each sitemap under the protocol limits and use a sitemap index when needed (50,000 URLs / 50MB uncompressed); gzip compress files where useful. Use <lastmod> only for meaningful content changes — if every entry shows “today” engines learn to ignore it. <changefreq> and <priority> are optional and not relied on by major engines. (Sitemaps protocol, practical notes on optional tags). (sitemaps.org)

Simple workflow for high-change sites (e‑commerce, big CMS): keep a stable “core” sitemap for evergreen URLs and a small, rolling “delta” sitemap that lists only newly added/updated pages; update/push the delta in real time and regenerate the core less often (nightly). For immediate notification to non‑Google engines use IndexNow; for Google use Search Console/API or the standard sitemap discovery methods — and avoid pinging an unchanged sitemap repeatedly. Monitor the Sitemaps/Coverage reports in Google and Bing Webmaster Tools for errors. (IndexNow FAQ, Bing guidance on sitemaps & freshness). (indexnow.org)

Quick checklist (do these, not everything at once): automate sitemap writes on publish; update <lastmod> only for real edits; split large lists into logical sitemaps and use an index; submit or declare the sitemap in robots.txt and watch the consoles for fetch/parsing errors. Example robots.txt line:

Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Also take ’s point — verify your CMS actually regenerates the sitemap on content changes and use the Search Console/Bing reports to confirm the engines are reading the file. ()

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Member Avatar for panditjee.com

Good Post

Member Avatar for jay 11

Since we are constantly adding new pages to our site, we typically update our sitemaps once per day. We actually built a way to automate this. It's fine if you want to update your sitemaps more than once per day but it's probably not necessary. If you are constantly making changes to your website, you might just want to wait until the end of the day or the next morning to update your sitemap. Just for sanity's sake. :)

Member Avatar for xilver2dragon

it will really good if you generate your sitemap when make a new post. For wp user, there is a plugin I use to generate it automatically. if not wrong, it's called xml sitemap generator

Member Avatar for Allison2009

it will really good if you generate your sitemap when make a new post. For wp user, there is a plugin I use to generate it automatically. if not wrong, it's called xml sitemap generator

It is nice to see WordPress is having plugin. What about Zen Cart. Which software (freeware) would be the best one to generate SiteMap.xml file for Zen Cart.

Member Avatar for Allison2009

Submission of sitemap is easy, read this three link on how to submit your sitemap in google, bing and yahoo.


http://www.icalvyn.com/how-to-submit-sitemap-to-google/
http://pleasantonwebdesignblog.com/2006/12/submit-your-google-sitemap-to-yahoo.html

i hope it will help you.

Is there any software (freeware) for generating (online) sitemap in the xml format for Zen Cart ecommerce website.

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Many of my clients use CMS software for their websites and my understanding is that the sitemaps automatically update whenever new content is added. Is this true or should I be checking with my clients to make sure that they update the sitemaps manually on a regular basis?

Member Avatar for AirForceOne

I use an add-on called simple xml sitemap on my zen-cart sites and it generate sitemap for my sites daily and ping the top 4 search engines. :)

Member Avatar for almostbob

apache mod_rewrite in .htaccess

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml? makesitemap.php

sitemap generated from the database whenever anything looks for a sitemap

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