: When does Google Webmaster Tools re-evaluate re-submitted sitemaps? When I alter and re-submit a sitemap does GWTs immediately re-evaluate it or do I have to wait 'til GoogleBot crawls our site

@Steve110

I have a site with over 300,000 links and 30 different site maps. I found that, after I change my site maps and resubmit, Google continued to crawl my site using the old site maps for a few days.

I had a major issue involving double urlencoding as stated here

On the first day, Google gave me over 1000 errors involving urlencoding. I fixed the problem and resubmitted my site maps, but for two days, the errors kept coming. I had to continually mark errors as fixed and eventually the errors stopped coming.

There is lag time, so be sure to make you sitemaps a accurate as possible the first time and wait a day or two before judging the effects of an update

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@Barnes591

I'd suggest you use this tool to create your sitemap if you don't already. Download the uncompressed xml one and put it at the root of your domain.

Now, when it comes to re-evaluating sitemaps, GWT does it almost instantaneously when you re-submit it, but for the changes to actually be taken into account by the internet as a whole, you'll have to wait till Google recrawls your site, yes.

Anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's how it goes ;)

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