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TL;DR My Sitemap shows a last crawl date of 2-3 days ago in Search Console and I wondered if there was a method of requesting Google re-crawl the sitemap, in the same way as you can ask it to re-crawl a page?

Explanation - I have a problem with a updated page not showing correctly in Search results. I have asked for several re-crawls over several days without luck. I believe this may be as a result of an old lastmod tag on my sitemap. I have corrected that issue and now a live view of sitemap now shows a correct lastmod. I think Google was skipping over the page re-crawl request because its last index was newer than the lastmod before I corrected that issue. Now the lastmod is newer than the last crawl date but now its not touching the Sitemap file to see the updated lastmod. I suspect it will in its own time in the next few days but still, its annoying...

Is there a way of requesting a sitemap re-crawl?

t2pe
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Typically, you can simply submit the URL of the sitemap again via the Sitemap report in Google Search Console and it will be read soon after. However, if you have submitted the same URL many times in a short period of time without any changes in the sitemap itself, GSC starts to ignore the requests (but only for a little while). In your GSC, what is the Last Read value for your sitemap and does it reflect the last time you submitted the URL? Portion of GSC Sitemap report

I Capulet
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