I submitted my sitemap to google - and nothing happened

[Graham Wellington]

Google crawled my website while I was building it, leaving an ugly mess of indexed links that no longer exist.

I set up an RSS sitemap of the final design and submitted to google. It was accepted and showed no errors.

24 hours later my ugly old links are still there. I thought google site maps were supposed to both help the publisher by indexing immediately and google by easing the load on their over worked bots.

How long do you guys normally wait for your sitemap to be indexed? If its no faster than before I don't see the point.

[Quadrille]

I suggest you pop over to Google Webmaster and read up on what sitemaps are for - and how they work.

It's not complicated, but it's not a quick fix, either.

[SandySEO]

Hi there,

You have to be keep little bit Patience. Google can take one month to show you your desired results.

-SandySEO

[piatkow]

Site maps worked wonders for me but for the first few weeks the SERPS were flip flopping between the old and the new but then it settled down.

[Graham Wellington]

I suggest you pop over to Google Webmaster and read up on what sitemaps are for - and how they work.
It's not complicated, but it's not a quick fix, either.

What is there to fix? I submitted my RSS sitemap and it was accepted as valid by google. Google's crawler bot now has an "easier job" crawling my pre-mapped site, yet it doesn't take advantage.

[Quadrille]

Just a wild guess here :)

You still have not read how sitemaps work, and how quickly, have you?

Thought not. :)