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Apr 14, 2008, 2:42 AM

Andy

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Apr 14, 2008, 2:42 AM

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Google SiteMaps - using more than one?

Hi,

Does anyone know if you can specify more than one sitemap URL?

For example, atm I have:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
       <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84" 
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 
        http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/siteindex.xsd">  <sitemap> 
    <loc>http://domain.com/directory/sitemap_index_p1.xml.gz</loc> 
  </sitemap> 
</sitemapindex>

..will it work with something like this:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
       <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84" 
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 
        http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/siteindex.xsd">  <sitemap> 
    <loc>http://domain.com/directory/sitemap_index_p1.xml.gz</loc> 
    <loc>http://domain.com/directory/another_sitemap.xml</loc> 
    <loc>http://domain.com/directory/another_sitemap2.xml</loc>
  </sitemap> 
</sitemapindex>

..or is that invalid syntax? I'm trying to split up the different sections of the site, into 3 different .xml files (the GLinks one gets made in .gz,cos it has the potential to get quite large =))

TIA

Andy (mod)
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Apr 14, 2008, 3:28 AM

eupos

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Apr 14, 2008, 3:28 AM

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Re: [Andy] Google SiteMaps - using more than one? In reply to

Yes it works

Currently I have sitemap index file with more than 50 sitemaps in, and google love it ;)

But the format is liitle different:

Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> 
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" 
    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"> 
   <sitemap> 
      <loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap-1.xml</loc> 
      <lastmod>2007-12-11T16:42:09+00:00</lastmod> 
   </sitemap> 
   <sitemap> 
      <loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap-2.xml</loc> 
      <lastmod>2007-12-11T16:44:01+00:00</lastmod> 
   </sitemap> 
</sitemapindex>

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eupos: Apr 14, 2008, 3:31 AM

Apr 14, 2008, 3:33 AM

Andy

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Apr 14, 2008, 3:33 AM

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Re: [eupos] Google SiteMaps - using more than one? In reply to

Hi,

Thanks - that looks perfect, I'll give it a go Smile

Thanks again.

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Apr 16, 2008, 10:47 AM

SandraR

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Apr 16, 2008, 10:47 AM

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Hey Andy,

here you go

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="gss.xsl"?>  
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">  
<sitemap><loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml.gz</loc><lastmod>2008-04-10T21:35:15+00:00</lastmod></sitemap>  
<sitemap><loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap2.xml.gz</loc><lastmod>2008-04-10T21:35:15+00:00</lastmod></sitemap>  
<sitemap><loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap3.xml.gz</loc><lastmod>2008-04-10T21:35:15+00:00</lastmod></sitemap>  
<sitemap><loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap4.xml.gz</loc><lastmod>2008-04-10T21:35:15+00:00</lastmod></sitemap>  
</sitemapindex>

Sandra Roussel
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SandraR: Apr 16, 2008, 11:43 AM

Apr 16, 2008, 10:58 AM

Andy

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Apr 16, 2008, 10:58 AM

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Thanks :)