{"id":12697,"date":"2020-06-07T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/?p=12697"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:34:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T11:34:20","slug":"google-recommends-creating-sitemaps-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/google-recommends-creating-sitemaps-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Recommends Creating Sitemaps Automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you know, there are two ways to create a sitemap:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The automatic method in which you use a WordPress plugin or an online tool, which automatically crawls your website and creates a sitemap for it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The manual method in which you manually add all the URLs of your website in a .txt or .xml file and submit it to Google.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While both methods have been used in the past, Google does not recommend creating sitemaps manually \u2014 especially for larger websites.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This recommendation came from Google Webmasters Trend Analyst, John Mueller, in a recent discussion on Reddit on the r\/SEO subreddit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A search engine optimiser posted a thread on Reddit, seeking advice on manually creating a sitemap for a large online business website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His question was:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have a client in a very technical, industrial niche. They sell industrial parts that are similar, but very specific. They have 2 Million+ SKUs in their inventory.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My challenge here is to create a sitemap. Because there are so many pages, I have to create it manually. I have a list of URLs broken up by products and categories that our dev team pulled through API. Since sitemaps can only contain 50,000 URLs, I have 37 excel sheets with 50,000 URLs on them each.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He further continued, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m using Screaming Frog to crawl those excel sheets and creating sitemaps from the crawl. The sitemaps are then pushed through FTP and I submit it to GSC. Is this a dumb approach?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To answer, John Mueller responded:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDon&#8217;t create a sitemap manually like that. You need to get it from the CMS or the underlying database directly.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other Redditors also echoed the same thought and recommended that sitemaps should be created automatically \u2014 not manually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a couple of reasons for that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, creating sitemaps is a time-consuming and overwhelming process. It is also more error-prone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, it is not a one-time activity. Sitemaps need to be maintained quite regularly \u2014 especially if you\u2019re frequently updating your website content. The manual solution isn\u2019t practical because you can\u2019t expect to keep up with the frequent changes an average website goes through.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, if you\u2019re ever wondering why you shouldn\u2019t create a sitemap manually and gain more control, now you have the answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/156184?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sitemaps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/183668?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how to build and submit a sitemap<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Google Search Console.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, there are two ways to create a sitemap: The automatic method in which you use a WordPress plugin or an online tool, which automatically crawls your website and creates a sitemap for it. 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