20 percent URL to be restructured - Should sitemap submission wait for 2 months

[Francis_GlobalMediaInsight]

This site has over 5,000 pages & over 1000 URLS are going to be restructed. But this restrucuring will happen only 2 months later. Hence do we have to wait for 2 months before we submit for XML sitemap files to search engines.

We would not like to wait, but our SEO consultant expert says we need to wait until the above refrred URl's are rewritten.

[EGOL]

I would listen to your "SEO consultant expert".

Why would you put up a site map that sends Google to 1000 dead URLs?  You want Google to believe you when you put up a sitemap.

[Oversteer]

I agree. It's akin to sending the post office a forwarding address when you haven't moved yet.

Wait until after the change, then update the sitemap. Consider keeping the old URLs in the sitemap along with tne new ones for a bit and make certain you have 301 redirects from the old to the new URLs. You can remove the old URLs once they've dropped the old URLs from the index.

[EGOL]

It's akin to sending the post office a forwarding address when you haven't moved yet.

haha,... right... they will throw your mail away!

[evolvingSEO]

Just adding my agreement with both EGOL and Oversteer