Hello All, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience or empirical evidence as to whether one sitemap at the root level of a domain is more optimal than multiple sitemaps. For example, I've got 3 sitemaps on one domain. One lists the files within root level, and all of the main "functional" pages of the site, the second is automatically generated to list files related to my on-site blog, and the third is in a sub-directory of the root level which is dedicated to landing pages, and lists only those. Anyone have any input, theories, ideas or experience? I appreciate the input! -Ben
IMO Having just one sitemap will be the best. This will make the bots to easily crawl your important pages.
use only one XML sitemap and one HTML sitemap (if possible). multiple XML sitemaps should be used only when you have more than 50,000 URLs or if your sitemap is more than 10 MB
I say start with multiple sitemaps from the beginning if you have even the slightest hint of needing them down the road. For instance a forum. No sense in writing your sitemap generator twice.