Lesson 4 of 1414 minAdvanced
Speed of indexation
News sitemaps and update frequency
A news sitemap covering the last 48 hours, regenerated on publish, is the baseline for fast discovery.
Why this lesson matters
This lesson belongs to Speed of indexation, the part of News & Publisher SEO where the goal is: get found within minutes, not hours.
Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankAudit. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.
Do it now
- 1Open RankAudit with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
- 2Crawl a site and triage the issue list.
- 3Measure publish-to-index time for five recent articles and note the slowest step.