Do you often submit?

How often do you generate new sitemap? I have article site and it is growing by the day - at least 50-100 articles submitted every day. I however approve only 25/day so the new articles link is on the homepage for 24 hours. (I have massive backlog - phoooosssshhh) Anyway - since new links are added everyday - how often should you guys think I should create a new sitemap (right now I do it bi-weekly - twice a month).

 

Why not make your sitemap dynamic? That way it always includes the latest articles.

 

How do I go about it? Can you shed some light please?

 

Once a week or two, get in mind that google re-submit your sitemap once a while.

 

Just write your sitemap in your favorite programming language. Then give it an .xml extension. Use FORCETYPE in .htaccess to tell apache to parse that file not as XML but as your programming language (make sure your sitemap sends out XML headers). It's easy to do and very effective.

 

I submit every couple days on one website, because it changes often. For the other website I submit whenever there are alot of changes, about once a week.

 

I dont, but when I do check it often shows that G had taken it. I'm using text file version.

 

I dont submit again, I do use the ping function that they have though...

 

I dont submit mine that often. It seems like a decent thing to have for your site but can become a huge time waister if you let it get out of hand.

 

hi Stymiee
Does your technique work on Windows servers ? They don't use htaccess

 

If they are running apache they do. Otherwise you'll need to find an alternative solution.

 

Site maps are good. My vBulletin forum has one, and it gets included every 7hours or so.

I also got the option to make the bot crawl more =)

 

thanks stymee i will add the dynmaic sitemap

 

Awesome. Once you get it working you'll thank yourself as you will rarely have to update it yourself again.

 

For that many articles - I'd say every week at least.

 

There is no use submitting sitemaps in google, i submitted one 15 days ago n my site has not yet been visited.

 

And you conclude it's not use? I submitted when I launched - 3rd day Gbot showed up.

 

I have tried to submit everyday and it seems google visits. However, my site still does not get indexed.

 

usually i'm just submit once to google
but if there is no auto dynamic sitemap generator i have to do more efforts.

 

if your site does not update frequently then avoid daily submission,once a week is sufficient IMO.

As far as indexing is consider : it all depends on your SEO efforts, try backlinks, uniques contents, onpage opetimization, posting in forums and blogs.