I just submitted a sitemap to Google for one of my sites that had 50,000 urls in it through the Google Webmaster Tools. Google rejected it saying that 50,000 was too many URL's and to try re-submitting with fewer URLs. Does anyone know what the magic number is for the limit on URL's for a sitemap on Google?
I have 150,000 pages and have submitted a number of sitemaps with 50,000 pages. Make sure there is not 50,001 as I believe 50,000 is the max allowed. To do more than 50,000 use a sitemapindex.xml that gives a list of sitemaps to Google. This is my sitemapindex file and it works well: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="gss.xsl"?> <sitemapindex xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.homecomputergames.com/sitemapcategories.xml</loc> <lastmod>2009-02-01</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.homecomputergames.com/sitemapezpages.xml</loc> <lastmod>2009-02-01</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.homecomputergames.com/sitemapproducts.xml</loc> <lastmod>2009-02-01</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.homecomputergames.com/sitemapproducts1.xml</loc> <lastmod>2009-02-01</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.homecomputergames.com/sitemapproducts2.xml</loc> <lastmod>2009-02-01</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.homecomputergames.com/gamers_blog/sitemap.xml</loc> <lastmod>2009-07-12</lastmod> </sitemap> </sitemapindex>
Ah, thank you for the help - I really appreciate it! This makes sense now, I will break it up into multiple files...