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Stephen Ostermiller
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What's the difference between Google's "submit URL" tool and just having a URL on your submitted xml sitemap?

I've used Google's "submit URL" feature in hopes of getting certain URLs indexed (or updated in the index), but I'm curious if submitting the URLs you want to be indexed via the xml sitemap is sufficient? I see the "submit URL" feature as a next step if a URL on my xml sitemap is still not being indexed -- is this correct? Or do they have two totally separate functions?