Pinging google sitemap after every new article submission?

Question

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.x         


        

Answer 1

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.