1 Reply Latest reply: Jan 16, 2014 1:00 PM by Liam Dilley RSS

    How often are sitemaps submitted by BC? And to where?

    jefferis Community Member
    jefferis Jan 16, 2014 8:30 AM

      My Client asks:

       

      Jeff,

       

      Previously we spoke when you transferred ourdomain to Adobe and I was under the impression that the SEO was done auto by ADobe. At that time i instructed my SEO guy to discontinue submitting the site to search engines so I would not be duplicating the submissions.

       

      Please confirm that the adobe is routinely submitting to the major search engines ie google, bing, etc

       

      Please let me know..

      Which Search engines?

       

      The frequency of submission? ( ie. weakly, monthly or how often ?

       

      Thanks

        • 1. Re: How often are sitemaps submitted by BC? And to where?
          Liam Dilley CommunityMVP
          Liam Dilley Jan 16, 2014 1:00 PM (in response to jefferis)

          Hi Jeff,

          That really is a load of nonsense at the end of the day.

           

          There is a lot to SEO but there is one basic principle...

           

          Search engines send out search bots that crawl websites. They come across this in a variety of ways (more later). At your site it looks for all the information/points and ranks you accordingly.

           

          A search bot can come across you via a link on another website or through registration or knowledge that you exist. So having external links or registering the site with web master tools etc.

           

          In terms of crawling your site and the rate it does that can be based on having web master tools and other natural factors like dynamic content, new link linked to an article or blog post etc.

           

          To aide a bot with going through your site you do your internal SEO of course so it has a nice easy job of it, set up robots.txt and of course sitemap.xml and so on.


          The sitemap is updated overnight so basically every day.