What is the best way to generate an automatic sitemap for google, bing and yahoo?
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Hi guys,
So far I recieved a Sitemap that was generated by an seo company to use and submit to google, for our co.nz domain, I have been told to submit this also to bing and yahoo. Can anyone tell me if I can submit the same sitemap for the com.au and com or would i need to generate a new sitemap for each domain?
I have been told, everytime we change content we have to keep submitting, is there a way to do this autmatically as we will be writting alot of content daily.
Any recommendations or suggestions?
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With Screaming Frog you would need to crawl, generate, and submit the sitemap (or upload it to your server) whenever it changes (you add/remove a page).
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Thanks Ray, I could chat to my developer about generating a automated one as that would help out alot. With the screaming frog, would I just need to do it once? and submit this to google and bing only once?
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Hi Alec,
It looks like your website is a custom built website, correct? No CMS like WordPress or similar. In this instance, you would want your developers to create an XML sitemap that auto-includes the new pages created for your site. If this is not possible, then you need to update the sitemap with the new pages as you create them.
Once you submit the sitemap link to Google / Bing they remember the URL to your sitemap and crawl the sitemap at their leisure (more popular sites get their sitemap crawled more frequently). So, once you submit a sitemap, as long as the URL remains the same, the bots will auto-crawl your sitemap for updates.
If you cannot have a sitemap autogenerated and do not want to always manually add the links (or do not know how to maintain an XML feed) then I suggest using Screaming Frog SEO Spider's sitemap feature. The tool will crawl your website and you can generate a sitemap for your site. Then, you can submit that sitemap as it changes to the proper search engines.
Since your websites are setup as unique domains, you would need to submit a sitemap with the unique URLs for each domain. Your other question about your 3 web properties raises some concerns, which I will try to address there.
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