Should I submit an additional sitemap to speed up indexing

[ceecee]

Hi all,

Wondered if there was any wisdom on this that anyone could impart my way?

I'm moving a set of pages from one area of the site to another - to bring them up the folder structure, and so they generally make more sense.  Our URLs are very long in some cases, so this ought to help with some rationalisation there too.

We will have redirects in place, but the pages I'm moving are important and I'd like the new paths to be indexed as soon as possible.  In such an instance, can I submit an additional sitemap with just these URLs to get them indexed quicker (or to reaffirm that indexing from the initial parse)?  The site is thousands of pages.

Any benefits /  disadvantages anyone could think of?  Any thoughts very gratefully received.

[paints-n-design]

Yeah why not an additional sitemap for all pages. I usually send the bot to the old once and let the bot get the redirect. Often times with a new special-for-that created sitemap.  I don't sent the new urls - I mean - thats showing the bot existing content on different URLs. Not what I wanted, I want the bot to see the redirects asap. My relaunches or big changes are allways done in one day - so I think thats a good way.

[Colemckeon]

I personally would not. There is no need to submit an additional sitemap when you can just ping google to crawl your site at anytime.

Google will put you in a que and crawl you almost immediately.

I would not recommend abusing this. Only ask Google to index your website when you have new content or Google is taking to long to index current content.

The more fresh content you provide, the more Google will re-visit your page and continue to index you

Hope this helps!