Does the submitted sitemaps in google search console only show sitemaps submitted through the console?

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I am using Rails sitemap_generator gem https://github.com/kjvarga/sitemap_generator#pinging-search-engines to ping google about an updated sitemap but the submitted date doesn't change in the Google Search Console.

sitemap_generator gem uses the 'http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=URL/of/file` method described here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/submit-URLs

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 04 '19 at 13:17

In my experience - yes.

But this isn't tied to the indexing of sitemap urls.

Submitting of the sitemap into GSC helps you just to monitor your sitemap urls. However the sitemap can be discovered by Googlebot independently of GSC submission. And Google is able to index your sitemap urls independently of the fact the sitemap was submitted into GSC or not. This is true until your site doesn't have millions of urls.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '19 at 15:17

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No, the search console also displays sitemaps that are referenced in the robots.txt file. As well as maps submitted though the GSC.

answered Dec 04 '19 at 15:17

Conor Grocock

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Does the submitted sitemaps in google search console only show sitemaps submitted through the console?

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