Can I redo my submitted sitemap to Google?
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We are a electronic hardware manufacture with a fairly large catalog of products. I dynamically built our site and we have over 705,000 unique products that we can offer. With our php framework I was able to create sitemaps that hold every product unique url. After doing all of that I submitted our data to Google.
Then waited with a cocktail encouraged that we'd grow up the ranks of Google organically. Well, that didn't happen.
Besides several other problems (lack of overall unique content, appearance of duplicate content, no meta description, no unique page titles, poor use of heading tags and no rel canonical tags) how can I get a "do-over" with Google and my submitted sitemaps? Can they be re-submitted? Can they even be deleted?
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Well for anyone else who would like to know...
You shouldn't worry about your XML sitemap submission so much and focus on fixing all the other things that you listed that are issues: "lack of overall unique content, appearance of duplicate content, no meta description, no unique page titles, poor use of heading tags and no rel canonical tags".
Google is going to crawl your site even without the help of an XML sitemap but it doesn't hurt to resubmit one every time you make some major changes to your site.
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Please disregard this question. Several google searches later I've found my answer.
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