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#12140 – XML Sitemap generation in 4SEO

Posted in ‘Pre-sale questions’

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Wednesday, 17 December 2025 09:57 UTC

milanofree

Hi,

I am writing to request support regarding the XML Sitemap generation in 4SEO.

I have recently deleted several old and obsolete articles from my Joomla site to improve SEO. After the deletion, I triggered a sitemap reconstruction. However, I noticed that the Total URLs count in the 4SEO dashboard remains unchanged (currently at 7325), which is the same number previously indexed by Google.

I have already verified the following:

The articles have been deleted and are not just "unpublished".
The "Minimum delay between updates" is set to 30 minutes.
The sitemap was supposedly recreated but the number of URLs did not decrease.

Could you please guide me on how to force a full refresh of the URL index so that 4SEO correctly detects the removal of these items? Is there a specific cache I should clear or a "re-scan" function I should trigger to ensure the XML file only contains currently published content?

Best regards,

Isacco

Wednesday, 17 December 2025 11:17 UTC

wb_weeblr

Closing as duplicate of your other identical ticket.

Best regard,

Yannick Gaultier

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