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Google Responds to Sitemap Technique Designed to Force Daily Crawling

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Google's John Mueller addressed an SEO technique using sitemaps to force daily crawling, explaining why the approach doesn't work as intended.

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John Mueller of Google commented on a sitemap-based SEO method intended to trigger daily crawls and indexing of web pages. While the technique attempts to game crawl frequency, Mueller's response indicates that forced-crawl tactics of this kind don't deliver the ranking benefits practitioners hope for—underscoring Google's resistance to manipulation of crawl patterns through sitemap manipulation.

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