Multiple Sitemap Organization

[eric.w]

Hello,

Quick question for you. If we have a sitemap.xml & sitemap-blog.xml, should all of the URL's in the sitemap-blog.xml file also be included the sitemap.xml?

Thanks!

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

sitemap.xml includes all URLs.

[eric.w]

And that's the case even if we're using separate sitemaps for different categories? E.g. all of our blog URL's will be listed in both "sitemap.xml" and "sitemap-blog.xml"?

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

in this case you would need to store them in separate files.

[eric.w]

Hello,

Just to clarify, in the scenario above the URL's in sitemap-blog.xml should not be included in sitemap.xml, correct?

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

I would include all URLs in main sitemap.

[eric.w]

Is it best practices to include the same URL's in two different sitemaps? I thought that if we had a specific sitemap for our blog, we would place all blog URL's within it, while leaving them out in the main sitemap.