Sitemap For Static Content And Blog
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We'll be uploading a sitemap to google search console for a new site. We have ~70-80 static pages that don't really chance much (some may change as we modify a couple pages over the course of the year). But we have a separate blog on the site which we will be adding content to frequently.
How can I set up the sitemap to make sure that "future" blog posts will get picked up and indexed.
I used a sitemap generator and it picked up the first blog post that's on the site, but am wondering what happens with future ones? I don't want to resubmit a new sitemap each time that has a link to a new blog post we posted.
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Hi,
I'd recommend using a sitemap index. It allows you to address multiple sitemaps in GSC so you could have one for 'static pages' and another which generates for blog content.
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If for your blog you are using something like wordpress, you can have multiple sitemaps. One for your blog and one for your static site. The blog would auto update whereas you can just manually update your static site.
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