: Do i need to update my `sitemap.xml` after each update of content ? I have a static HTML website that i update manually, most of the time these updates are text amendments, additions, edits,

@LarsenBagley505

It is good practice to update the sitemap when new content is added to the site, or existing content is updated, or deleted. This however does not assure it will be taken into consideration. While Google and in fact most web crawlers use the sitemap file for helping direct the crawling efforts it doesn't control crawling. If you update the page content most crawlers will detect this when they re-crawl the page, however simply updating the sitemap with the new lastMod date and time won't compel them to rather it will be taken as a signal to indicate that the content may have been updated and the crawler may crawl it sooner, or may wait until the next scheduled crawl.

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