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Submit a temporary sitemap of unindexed URLs

Submit a temporary sitemap of unindexed URLs

VerdictMarginal

CategoryCrawling

Last reviewedNovember 7, 2026

The problem

Google is slow to revisit pages you have improved.

Steps

  1. Create a separate sitemap with the improved URLs.
  2. Submit it in Search Console.
  3. Remove it once the pages have been recrawled.

Evidence

A sitemap helps Google come back to the pages, but it does not change its judgment of them.

Verdict

Marginal.

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Dan Keller writes repoSEO and its sister site AEOplays, which reviews AEO plays the same way. Before that he edited King Digest, a newsletter on search, marketing and AI, until he got tired of passing on tactics nobody had checked. He reviews each SEO play against what Google documents and what holds up in practice, and says so when the evidence isn’t there yet.