: Static Sitemap with weekly updates for Dynamic Website I have a dynamic website in which products, news and other stuff are added on daily basis. Since, I read everywhere having a sitemap can

@Candy875

There is an alternative method which is to use a RSS feed where you would push your new post/articles/Urls when they are ready. You would need to submit your RSS feed to PubSubHubBub. Google would come and visit it frequently to check whether you have published updated or new content.


My question is can I follow the procedure of weekly generating and updating the sitemap file at server for search engines or should i do it daily?


It depends how fast you want your content to be crawled and indexed. You decide. By updating your sitemap daily, bots are more likely to visit your new pages sooner.


Also having a sitemap won't stop google bots from crawling the website daily?


Not at all.

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@Nimeshi995

It's a good practice to update the sitemap every time your site receives a new page. This can be easily done automatically in PHP, Google supports up to 50,000 urls within one site map and then your need to split into multiples with a limit of 50,000 each.

If your finding the process is slowing down the server then its time to upgrade hosting or change the method of which your using to generate the sitemap, for example sitemaps should be appended every time a new page is added rather than re-making the sitemap as a whole.

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