Hi guys, I have just submitted a xml sitemap. Webmasters says it was recently downloaded and there is no update yet. I was wondering , how long does it take to google to start crawling and index the pages? Thank you very much.
I update and re-submit my xml sitemap each and every day that I have new content; I re-submitted my sitemap 3 hours ago and Google has already indexed today's news on my site and I've seen it index within an hour before.
So according to you , It should be very soon? I understand sitemap can actually be efficient in case I don't have many backlinks to my website because it gives google access to crawl all my pages , even if they don't have any links , is that true?
It *could* be very soon. If this is your first ever sitemap submission then I'd wait 24 hours and check to see the site getting indexed; it may depend on how many pages are in your sitemap too before they're indexed; check your GWT crawl stats for that. Also I've been doing this for months and have a news section which is specifically registered with Google as a news source so it *may* get spidered more frequently.
i believe it depends on how many links your site has to it as far as how fast the pages get indexed, i did notice that my sitemap is downloaded everyday but i may not see those new pages in google cache for a few days to a week.
same problem with me I have a new site its 8 pages are indexed and 10 days ago i submitted sitemaps of 23 pages but still my other pages are now indexed???
I have been waiting for more then 1 week and still nothing . I guess we will just have to wait a bit longer.