How often should I upload a new sitemap in google webmasters?

[jackaveli]

So I have a real estate website that is regularly changing listings, photos, data.  Every time a new listing is added it creates a page for that listing.

My question is how frequently should I be recreating a new xml sitemap and uploading it to google webmasters?

Thanks in advance.

[sergio_redondo]

Hi Scott,

It depends if you want those new pages to be indexed fast. If you want them to be indexed as soon as possible, is a good idea to make a new sitemap because the next time bots crawl your web, they will find new pages easily and then can index them. If indexing new pages is not urgent for you, then wait.

Obviously, if you create a high number of pages which may be indexed per day, create a new sitemap each time you have a new page could be a hard work.

You have to stablish your needs, for example a new sitemap/day, or a new sitemap/10 new pages, etc.

If you use some CMS, like WordPress, there are some useful plugins that allow you automate this task.

I hope my answer would be helpful.

[jackaveli]

Thanks Sergio,

So that leads me to another question, if I upload a new sitemap to google webmasters will it start fresh at zero or will it pick up where it left off.  I noticed for the last couple weeks google has been indexing between 500-1000 pages per day.  Then for the last few days it seems like they have slowed down.  Any thoughts?

Scott

[simon_realbuzz]

Hi Scott, depending on the volume of new pages being created you could always make use of the 'Fetch as Google' contained in the 'Health' tab facility in your Webmaster account to make sure that your most important new pages are indexed.

Periodically you could add a new sitemap but on a daily or perhaps weekly basis submitting the important pages for indexing through your Webmaster account could be the way to go.