Posting a new sitemap to Google - bad?

[Boulder90]

Hi all. Currently my site is around 140 pages of unique content, but I plan to add another 25 pages in early May. Recently I had to fix all of my links to make them "prettier". upon doing so, I had to add a new site map to Google. I understand that changing the links and changing the image names mean I lost them in the Google archive(which is ok since my site is very new, and I wanted ot have better image names and links for better search engine results).

Anyway, I plan to add another 30 pages of content in two weeks. Do I submit this as a new site map to Google in webmaster tools, or do I just let Goigle find it naturally? The old links in the 40 pages will not change, I will just be adding new pages.

Thx for any feedback.

[bwnbwn]

No just add them to the existing site map it will be crawled.

BTW is is never a good idea just to change the urls anytime without a plan of action.

"I understand that changing the links and changing the image names mean I lost them in the Google archive"

This is an incorrect assumption what you have now is duplicate url's in the index.

The old url and now the new url I assume with the same content so this = duplicate pages with the whole site being duplicate not a pretty picture.

Not sure you can do a 301 from the old to the new but if you can I suggest you do this as Google never just loses a page unless you help it.

[Boulder90]

bwnbwn -

Thx for the feedback. Basically I needed to change all of my links because I left a space between words and they had some ugly code inbetween the spaces, mostly "%" signs. I also updaed some pages with better internal link flow.

I checked the Google index and all of the ugly links previously attached to my site now reach 404's, with the new mapped "pretty" links reaching my site.

I will check and see if there is a manualway to remove those form the index.

When adding new pages to the sitemap, is there an "add new pages" option in webmaster tools or do I just create an entirely new sitemap and submit it?

Thx.

[edited by: Boulder90 at 11:07 pm (utc) on April 23, 2008]

[bwnbwn]

there is in webmaster tools you can have them removed there be a really good idea to do this as 404's are not a good thing either for a small site

[Robert Charlton]

I wouldn't worry about the 404s. Even if were returning a 410 gone response, Googlebot would come back for a year looking for them.

The main thing is that the old urls should show a 404 or 410, and the new pages should show an 200 OK status.

If both the old and new pages show 200 OK, then there's a problem.