2 sitemaps on my robots.txt?

[Webicultors]

Hi,

I thought that I just could link one sitemap from my site's robots.txt but... I may be wrong.

So, I need to confirm if this kind of implementation is right or wrong:

robots.txt for Magento Community and Enterprise

...
Sitemap: http://www.mysite.es/media/sitemap/es.xml
Sitemap: http://www.mysite.pt/media/sitemap/pt.xml

Thanks in advance,

[MonkStein]

We recently changed our protocol to https

We have in our robots.txt our new https sitemap link

Our agency is recommending we add another sitemap in our robots.txt file to our insecure sitemap - while google is reindexing our secure protocol. They recommend this as a way for all SEs to pick up on 301 redirects and swap out unsecured results in the index more efficiently.

Do you agree with this?

I am in the camp that we should have have our https sitemap and google will figure it out and having 2 sitemaps one to our old http and one to our new https in our robots.txt is redundant and may be viewed as duplicate content, not as a positive of helping SEs to see 301s better to reindex secure links.

Whats your thought? Let me know if I need to explain more.

[Mobilio]

Well if both sitemaps are for same site then it's OK. But it's much better to implement hreflang as this is explained here:https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en

I'm not sure that Magento can do this but you always can hire 3rd party dev for building plugin/module for this.

[Webicultors]

ok, just one detail: these domains are for a multilang site.

I mean, both have quite the same content: one in spanish and the other un portuguese.

Thanks a lot.

[Mobilio]

You can also have multiple sitemaps on 3rd sites. Look at Moz robots.txt:
Sitemap: https://moz.com/blog-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://moz.com/ugc-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://moz.com/profiles-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://d2eeipcrcdle6.cloudfront.net/past-videos.xml
Sitemap: http://app.wistia.com/sitemaps/36357.xml

Also Google.com robots.txt:
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/culturalinstitute/sitemaps/www_google_com_culturalinstitute/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sitemaps/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/earth/gallery/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/trends/websites/sitemaps/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.google.com/sitemap.xml

Also Bing.com robots.txt:
Sitemap: http://cn.bing.com/dict/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: http://www.bing.com/offers/sitemap.xml

So using multiple sitemaps it's OK and they can be also hosted on 3rd party server.

[donford]

Hello,

Yes, multiple sitemaps are okay, and sometimes even advised!

You can read Google's official response here."..it's fine for multiple Sitemaps to live in the same directory (as many as you want!)..."

And you can see a case study showing how multiple sitemaps has helped traffic here on Moz.

Hope this helps,

Don