Sitemap Generation & Pinging

[internet54]

Fact is, you don’t use the sitemap for anything besides search engines. The protocol website you linked tells us the file’s sole purpose is “to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling”. So, if you don’t want search engines to get the sitemap, you don’t need one.

I use sitemaps all the time for purposes that have no relation to search engines.

For example. I will create a sitemap to gather all page links that my client has created and examine the times of which they were last edited.

I will also create a sitemap so I can get all address and then create 301 redirects for sites that don't use SEO url's.

So, for the later example, why would I want to ping a sitemap to Google if I'm going in to change the urls of the pages?

The sitemap creation and pinging MUST be separate. That is why I suggested a javascript popup button to ping or not to ping. Sometimes things can be overly easy.