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hey my website is indirimatic my sitemaps doesnt updated itself. do i need to resubmit them when i post new posts or what? how long does it take to get them updated?

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Short answer: a sitemap file itself does not force immediate crawling or indexing. If the sitemap URL on your server is updated, search engines will re-read it on their own schedule. That means you usually do not need to generate a brand-new sitemap every time you publish; you need to make sure the sitemap that search engines know about is actually being updated and served correctly. See Google Search Central for the official guidance: Sitemaps overview.

Practical checks to run now: open your sitemap URL in a browser and confirm the XML shows the new URLs and/or updated <lastmod> dates; verify the HTTP response is 200 and the file isn’t stale due to a cache or CDN; confirm the sitemap is reachable from robots.txt or from Search Console; and check the Search Console Sitemaps report for parse errors or a recent “last read.” The sitemap protocol (limits, lastmod use, index files) is documented at sitemaps.org — if you have >50k URLs, use a sitemap index rather than many separate, unmanaged files.

How long it takes: there is no fixed interval — it can be hours, days, or longer depending on site authority and crawl budget. To prompt Google, use the URL Inspection tool for specific pages or notify Google of an updated sitemap with the ping endpoint, for example https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://your-site/sitemap.xml (see Google’s submit-sitemap docs for options: ). Also make sure new pages are reachable via internal links so crawlers find them naturally.

About earlier replies: ’s idea of creating a separate sitemap and re-registering can work but often complicates management and fragments signals; updating the existing sitemap or using an index is cleaner. ’s platform question matters — check your CMS/plugin and caching settings. If things still look wrong, capture Search Console errors and server logs showing Googlebot requests before making big changes.

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hey my website is indirimatic my sitemaps doesnt updated itself. do i need to resubmit them when i post new posts or what? how long does it take to get them updated?

What is an indirimatic? How does your xml sitemaps not updating itself? Are you using Google or any other platform to update your sitemaps? Maybe you can explain it more clearly on why it's not updating.

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you create another sitemap in XML again and then submit to google webmaster tool.

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