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Ask HN: How do you get search engines to reindex your site?
I changed the URL structure for one of my Django sites so every day I get error messages as spiders & bots try and crawl the old pages.
Is there a way you can proactively alert Google, Yahoo, etc that a reindex is needed?
- davemac 15y agoFor Google, you can use Google Webmaster Tools and feed it a new sitemap
- emilepetrone 15y agoawesome thanks
- mattadams 15y agoYou probably want to be looking into automatically generated XML sitemap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemap). Since the sitemap should always be available at say, /sitemap.xml you shouldn't need to resubmit it. Most modern search engines will check it every so often. You might also consider doing redirects from your old pages to your new ones. I don't know if that is feasible given your restructuring.