Is sitemap required on my robots.txt?

[Webicultors]

Hi,

I know that linking your sitemap from your robots.txt file is a good practice. Ok, but... may I just send my sitemap to search console and forget about adding ti to my robots.txt?

That's my situation:

1. 1 multilang platform which means...
2. ... 2 set of pages. One for each lang, of course
3. But my CMS (magento) only allows me to have 1 robots.txt file

So, again: may I have a robots.txt file woth no sitemap AND not suffering any potential SEO loss?

Thanks in advance,

Juan Vicente Mañanas Abad

[LoganRay]

Hi Juan,

You should also know that you can have multiple sitemap directives on one robots file. This is common among international sites and large commerce sites.

[Mobilio]

Well including sitemap in robots.txt is good praticle but isn't required. You can add sitemap in SearchConsole (or Bing WMT) and bots will index site again. Even bots can index site w/o sitemap but sitemap helps them.

That's why don't worry. You can edit your robots.txt at anytime and add sitemap if it's possible.