Pinging google sitemap after every new article submission?
sitemap
Solution
Yes, that method is allowed by google.
Issue your request to the following URL:
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url
For example, if your Sitemap is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz, your URL will become:
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz
URL encode everything after the /ping?sitemap=:
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com%2Fsitemap.gz
Issue the HTTP request using wget, curl, or another mechanism of your choosing.
ADDED:
Based on the link I just given, there is an info in there, google says:
We recommend that you resubmit a Sitemap no more than once per hour.
Problem
As you may know, by using the following url, you can 'ping' google to update its record of your sitemap: ``` https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=URLOFSITEMAP.xml ``` I made a script to do this programmatically after every article submission (I am making a user submitted blog type site). Do you think its a bad idea to do this after every submission and would it be better to do this daily or after some interval? I guess this would come down to whether or not there is a chance that doing this would stall the application execution. The pinging is not done asynchronously so I guess there is always a chance. I was just wondering if anybody has implemented this programmatically and what his/her approach was.