Don’t see google visiting the sitemap

  • Resolved danniee

    (@danniee)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    Added the sitemap yesterday using this plugin, and all looks fine in Search Console. But when I check my access logs, I don’t see that Google has visited the sitemap. With my old sitemap plugin, I could see that Google would quite instantly visit the new sitemap several times per day.

    I see this in the log: Oct 25 2021 00:26:53 – Google Auto ping – Google Webmaster Tools – Sitemap Notification Received.

    Maybe I’m just being paranoid.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by danniee.
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  • Thread Starter danniee

    (@danniee)

    Goolge is still visiting my old sitemap instead of this new one even though I removed it yesterday.

    Thread Starter danniee

    (@danniee)

    Since I’ve installed this plugin I’ve only now seen the Googlebot visit the sitemap once, and that was at 2 am. I haven’t seen it all day after that. With my other sitemap I saw the Googlebot all the time, but I don’t know what is best practice or what is normal?

    Edit: I see it has visited my old sitemap (which I have removed) like 10+ times today.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by danniee.
    Plugin Author xmlsitemapgenerator

    (@xmlsitemapgenerator)

    Hello.
    When you say you removed your old sitemap, which one do you mean?
    There is no strict rule around how and when google visits, but I wonder if your “old” sitemap is perhaps the problem and if you removed it then pointed google to the new one in the console this would perhaps resolve the issue.

    Thread Starter danniee

    (@danniee)

    I see googlebot crawling my site all the time during the day, but it only visits this new sitemap once per day. Is that normal?

    Plugin Author xmlsitemapgenerator

    (@xmlsitemapgenerator)

    “normal” is something defined by google and a bit unpredictable but visiting once a day would seem adequate for most sites unless you have told google that your content changes very frequently and this justifies visiting more often. Even then, this is only a hint and does not guarantee google will behave differently.

    Thread Starter danniee

    (@danniee)

    @xmlsitemapgenerator understood. Thank you sir.

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