Sitemap do they get cleared when its a 404

[mtthompsons]

Hi,

Sitemap do they get cleared when its a 404. We have a drupal site and a sitemap that has 60K links and i want to know if in these 4 years we deleted 100's of links and do they have them automatically cleared from Sitemap or we need to build the sitemap again?

Thanks

[Francisco_Meza]

I would run a test and create a URL example.com/test. Check to see if it's in the sitemap, then delete it and check to see if it dropped from the site map. It should, but you never know.