Sitemap
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Hi, I am setting up a new sitemap for our website. the website contains about 8000 - 10.000 pages. Of wich are 6000 productpages. I have 10 categories, about 80 sub-catagories and about 400 sub-sub categories ( these ar my most important landingpages)
At this moment our sitemap is only 1 MB. From that point of view 1 sitemap will be enough. But can i take SEO advantage by splitting this sitemap in 10 categories? Or are there other ways to set it up for a better SEO?
Thanks!
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Yes i'll do that thanks
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No it's not as long as you submit the 10 different files to both Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools.
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Hi Martijn,
Thanks for the info. Is it necessary to make a sitemap index page if i split it in 10 categories? like this; https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/75712?hl=en
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Hi Leonie,
If it's not to hard for your developers I would split them up in 10 categories. You wouldn't benefit from this for SEO but you would be able to see per category how many pages are indexed. In some cases this could make it easier to see where pages are indexed and where not.
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