Robots.txt and Multiple Sitemaps

[allstatetransmission]

Hello,

I have a hopefully simple question but I wanted to ask to get a "second opinion" on what to do in this situation. I am working on a clients robots.txt and we have multiple sitemaps. Using yoast I have my sitemap_index.xml and I also have a sitemap-image.xml I do put them in google and bing by hand but wanted to have it added into the robots.txt for insurance. So my question is, when having multiple sitemaps called out on a robots.txt file does it matter if one is before the other? From my reading it looks like you can have multiple sitemaps called out, but I wasn't sure the best practice when writing it up in the file.

Example:

User-agent: *

Disallow: 

Disallow: /cgi-bin/

Disallow: /wp-admin/

Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

Sitemap: http://sitename.com/sitemap_index.xml

Sitemap: http://sitename.com/sitemap-image.xml

Thanks a ton for the feedback, I really appreciate it! :) 
J

[allstatetransmission]

Awesome! yea I submitted them to bing and google by hand, I just figured it couldn't hurt to have it in my robots too.

Appreciate the feedback

[TakeshiYoung]

Yes, what you have is the proper format. The best way to submit sitemaps, of course, is to submit them via Google & Bing Webmaster Tools.

Sitemaps won't have much impact on your site unless you have a really large site, so I wouldn't focus on them too much. The best way to get content crawled & indexed by Google is good internal link structure and authoritative external links.