How do you handle Wordpress sitemaps within your site?
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I have a regular site map on my site and I also have a Wordpress site installed within it that we use for blog/news content. I currently have an auto-sitemap generator installed in Wordpress which automatically updates the sitemap and submits it to the search engines each time the blog is updated.
The question I have (which I think I know the answer to but I just want to confirm) is do I have to include all of the articles within the blog in the main site's sitemap despite the Wordpress sitemap having them in there already?
If I do include the articles in the main website's sitemap, they would also be in the Wordpress sitemap as well, which is redundant. Redundancy is not good, so I just want to make sure.
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I use 2 different sitemaps and submit them both to Google and the other search engines
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Yep, no need. Won't hurt if you do (will probably get crawled twice or one will be ignored) but for the sake of keeping GWT sitemap data clean (pages submitted/indexed), don't duplicate the links.
Cheers,
Oleg -
So don't include links to the articles in the main sitemap if they are already in the wordpress sitemap?
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You can just keep them separate and submit both sitemaps to GWT. That's your best course of action.
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