Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that deleting a sitemap won’t prevent URLs from being crawled in the future.
This topic is discussed in the latest episode of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube.
Mueller addresses a question asking if it’s possible to turn off or delete a sitemap from Google Search Console.
Deleting a sitemap is possible, and it’s not hard to do either, but if the intention is to stop Googlebot from crawling the URLs then site owners will have to employ a…
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