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which sitemap submit to webmastertools (i have few sitmeaps on my website)

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by Solomon81, Dec 29, 2015.

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    happy to find this helpfull forum!

    YOAST plugin created 2 sitemap for me :

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    my questions are simple :)

    1. Why 2 sitemaps ?
    2. Which one should i add to webmastertools and why ?
    3. what about the sitemap www.websitename.com/sitemap ? where is that located or dont need ?

    thank you :)
     
    Solomon81, Dec 29, 2015 IP
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    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    Include both, one contains pages and one contains posts
     
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    you can manually put together your 2 sitemaps into the one sitemap.xml
     
    Mnezius, Feb 17, 2016 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    That's not hugely practical though, is it?
     
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    If you have a small site, you can do that, because maximum size of sitemap.xml is 10 MB.
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    It's not the size of the file, it's that every single time you make a post or an edit on your site you have to repeat the process.
     
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    if size of sitemap.xml more than 10 MB it automatically divided into several files (sorry for my english, it is not my native language)
     
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    Hi
    I am also using the Yoast plugin for my website , and it generates sitemap with name sitemap_index.xml which is hosted on different server and contains every taxonomy which you don't hide.
    ex 1. site/post-sitemap.xml
    2. site/page-sitemap.xml.
    above two you gave will always remain apart from it you will set tag-sitemap.xml and category-sitemap.xml .

    And as far as why two sitemaps , you will see one sitemap named sitemap_index which will contain many sitemap itself. You will need to submit only main sitemap(sitemap_index) to webmaster tool of your choice, their bot will crawl your inner sitemaps.

    And about the location of your sitemap .

    You will never see the sitemap_index as you said you are using yoast , they host sitemap on different server. However if you want to see the sitemap , then generate the sitemap with xml-sitemap dot com site and place that sitemap in your root directory and submit this generated sitemap to google bot or bing or anyother webmaster of your choice .

    Let me know if you need any further clarification
     
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    Anubhav-soin, Feb 17, 2016 IP