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#11048 – Automatic sitemap generation & submit to GSC after new article is published?

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Monday, 06 May 2024 06:03 UTC

jk-rauschfrei-media-at

Hello,

I am not sure if it is a bug or if there is somewhere an option hidden. I have observed that 4SEO doesnt add new articles (for example new blog articles) into the sitemap and automatically sends the updated sitemap to GSC.
I was expecting that this could be done with 4SEO but as it seems, i have to manually add the URL by myself to 4SEO, then hit "regenerate sitemap" and then submit the new, updated sitemap manually to GSC.
I have enabled submit to Google, automatic sitemap generation, 30 minutes and so on.
In the past, when we have created and published a new article, this article was not included automatically in the sitemap - for example with this article:
https://www.example.com/de/blog/content-marketing/helpful-content

it was published on april 20, 2024. but on april 26 or so the content was still not included in the sitemap.

Do oyu have any hints what we are doing wrong?

thanks,

Josef from ithelps

Monday, 06 May 2024 07:53 UTC

wb_weeblr

I have observed that 4SEO doesnt add new articles (for example new blog articles) into the sitemap and automatically sends the updated sitemap to GSC.

It does. Just not instantly.

i have to manually add the URL by myself to 4SEO, then hit "regenerate sitemap" and then submit the new, updated sitemap manually to GSC

You don't need to do that in general. In addition, if you manually add a URL, you clicking "Rebuild sitemap" has no effect (it literrally does nothing, it has another purpose, rebuilding the cached sitemap version in case the cached version has been deleted. But that does not change the content of the sitemap, it simply rebuilds the cached files based on the current database content.

Also, when a new/updated sitemap is created, it's automatically submitted to Google (assuming you connected the Google Search Console to 4SEO).

I'd strongly suggest you read this paragraph of the Sitemaps documentation page. The short story is:

- that new article is detected when someone, a visitor, a search engines, visits a page that has a link to that new article (say /blog)

- 4SEO sees that this page has changed (it has a new link) so it put /blog on the list of pages to analyze

- when /blog has been analyzed, 4SEO finds the link to /new-article. It's new, so it puts /new-articles on the list of pages to analyze

- when /new-article has been analyzed and 4SEO knows: it's not blocked by robots.txt, it's not blocked by a meta noindex and it's not a duplicate of an existing page, it adds it to the sitemap list in the database

- it then updates the sitemap

- and submit to Google Search Console - waiting for, by default, 30mn after the last submission, because we don't want to send updates too often to Google.

So the key points here are;:

- do you have links to that new article on a page with visits?

- do you have lots of pages "pending" analysis? pages are analyzed in order, so if you have lot of pages waiting, it may take time for the new item to be analyzed.

Now if that latter happens, you can definitely use the "Add/update URL" to make 4SEO analyze the page immediately. If you do that, you don't need to do anything else though, the sitemap process, including submission to Google, is automated (but never instant, there's always be a wait time).

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Thursday, 06 June 2024 05:34 UTC

system

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