Sitemap submission ping URLBy adding your XML sitemap's URL at the end of the ping URL, like this: https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml , you can submit your sitemap directly to Search Console.
For sitemaps with less than a few dozen URLs, you can manually create a sitemap. For sitemaps with more than a few dozen URLs, automatically generate a sitemap.
To test the sitemap files, simply login to Google Webmaster Tools, click on Site Configuration and then on Sitemaps. At the top right, there is an “Add/Test Sitemap” button. After you enter the URL, click submit and Google will begin testing the sitemap file immediately.
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.
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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.
Take a look at the code for the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for Wordpress. A lot of people use that and it does not seem to slow things down enough to notice. Whatever methodology they are using should be a good place to start.
As of 2015, Google no longer suggests a rate limit in their documentation.
It is in Google's best interest to know when fresh articles are created so it is worth pinging them with your sitemap, or at least some kind of "Fresh Articles" sitemap when new articles are published.
Googlebot will request your sitemap every time your ping it. It sends requests headers to check the newness of the resource. So if you plan on submitting a sitemap frequently, make sure your server will handle the request correctly. Otherwise, you might return a 304 (Not Modified) and Googlebot won't actually get the file.
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