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Apr 14, 2008, 2:42 AM
Andy
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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

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Apr 14, 2008, 3:28 AM
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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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Apr 14, 2008, 3:33 AM
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Hi,

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

Thanks again.

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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>


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Apr 16, 2008, 10:58 AM
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Thanks :)