Should I create a separate sitemap.xml for paginated categories?
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Thanks man!
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Hey Housing Interactive,
Good question. The answer depends on if you are targeting those paginated pages with different keywords to the main sub-category. It's highly likely you're not.
The other advantage of having those pages indexed is it's more internal links to point at your most important pages.
However, Search Engines only allocate a certain amount of bandwidth/processing power to crawl your site. If it uses that time up crawling less important sub-category paginated pages, it could miss the more important pages you want to rank.
Therefore in short, I wouldn't bother.
Hope that helps
Iain - Reload Media
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