Multiple Sitemaps

Hello All,

I was wondering what to do about multiple sitemaps. I have an index sitemap that redirects to three others that display the categories and products and such.

When entering into Google webmaster would I submit all of my sitemaps or only the index one?

Could either way hurt my site?

As well what should i put in my robots.txt... all of them or just the index one?

Thanks,
Nick

 

google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=71453

 

you can have multiple sitemap. and you can submit all sitemaps too or you can submit Index sitemap file in Google Webmaster tools. Multiple sitemap won't hurt your site. In robots.txt, you can disallow the page or folder which you don't want to crawl by Google robots. you can also mention the sitemap.xml file reference in robots.txt. You can visit http://www.robotstxt.org/ site. you will get idea about it.

 

you can just submit Index sitemap file . use the index sitemap file to point to you multiple sitemaps

 

submit only index sitemap file or you can submit html and xml site map

 

I like to do something similar - hosting multiple blogs on the same domain, hence being able to submit each blog to blog directories and create a new sitemap for each blog.
Read more about Using multiple sitemaps to analyse indexation on large sites by Blogstorm SEO Blog.

 

Be very careful with sites that is redirecting and including multiple sitemaps to your sites if this is including sitemaps to external sites. If I understand you correctly you have several sitemaps for your internal products/services though and submitting this to Google Webmaster Tools should be no problem. I have been doing this on several sites the last year without any problem.

 

I also have a blog, should I create a new domain in webmaster tools for it?

 

You can have multiple sitemaps, I keep two, one for my main site the other for the blog feed. Both get indexed very often.

 

multiple can be use when website pages is very high. then create page folder wise sitemap for website.

 

You Can Use Multiple Sitemap

 

Yes if in your site multiple sitemaps are there than you can use GZ sitemap of sitemaps ...

 

If you have a large number of URLs (more than 10,000), it can be helpful to group the different type pages into separate sitemaps. Then, you can point your index to all of them, and submit the index and the individual sitemaps to GWT, and GWT will tell you how many URLs from each sitemap are indexed. In this way, you can determine if you are having an indexing problem with one section of your site but not others. If you have a very small site this shouldn't be necessary.

 

Submitted Google friendly sitemaps is your highway to fast indexed content.