Submitting URLs to Bing and Google
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Does Submitting URLs to Bing and Google actually do anything? Is it worthwhile?
What I mean is submitting intermittently individual URLS after already submitting the sitemap.
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If your sitemap.xml file is uptodate and/or all your links can be accessed by Google it does not make sense to submit links manually.
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Thanks. I do it quite a lot -especially after updating my blog- but I wondered if it really was useful.
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I don't believe submitting URLs is a strategy if that is what you mean. I rarely submit URLs but if I find a page or have a new page that I want to get crawled as quickly as possible then I will go submit. I certainly don't have any proof of how much this has helped over the years. I do believe it notifies Google and Bing to crawl.
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Yes, it helps them get crawled quicker.
Its like telling them, please go here and find this URL ,as opposed to sitting around doing nothing about it and crying weeks later wondering why your website has not been found yet
I see you edited your post after my response
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