Multiple Site Maps

[emmawatson]

Anyone know why Google allows the submission of multiple sitemap urls? And which sitemap url it uses to crawl the site. Just noticed this recently in Webmaster tools.

[plepco]

For when you have multiple sites. I have like five sites each with a sitemap.

[The_FoX]

yes you can use many sitemaps then create on sitemap index to link to all of those child sitemaps. you can enter upto 50kurls in sitemap index. the entire process is here - http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2007/06/how-to-build-a-sitemap-for-blogger-and-large-websites/

[trichnosis]

you are allowed to use more than one sitemap on your google webmaster tools account

[youngpatriot]

And which sitemap url it uses to crawl the site.

Google uses all the sitemaps you submit to crawl your site. If you have a huge site, it becomes necessary to split them up, because Google has an upper limit on file size/number of urls.