: Should i 301 the sitemap.xml from an old site to a new site when moving domain? When moving a site to another domain is it a good idea to leave the sitemap.xml in place and not 301'ed to

@XinRu657

In my experience, it's best to leave the sitemap files in place without any changes. My theory is this gives google a chance to recrawl the list of old urls to find the 301 redirects and update them to the new urls.

This is what I've drawn from doing a couple domain changes and rewrites from http to https on sites with thousands of indexed pages. It might not matter as much for a site with only a couple dozen pages.

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