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Thanks, Chris. I was able to manually add my static pages in the root folder to the sitemap built by the google XML sitemap generator. This works out great since I can control their priority and other settings, including the location of the sitemap file itself.

One additional question is, within the sitemap, does the order of pages matter? In other words, if I want to drive more traffic to my static pages (not wordpress), should they come first in the sitemap, or does the priority ranking take care of this?

Thanks a million for all your help!!

Thanks, Chris.  Does it hurt my site in terms of SEO to have two separate sitemaps? I know there's no real answer for this, but I'd like to have a grip of the pro's and con's.

Also, I my brain was heading down this path with the idea that I could tie the two sitemaps together using a sitemap index which would list both of them.  Do you  know the default location of the sitemap generated by Google XML Sitemaps, and if the file name changes when it is updated?  I believe this is all the information I would need to put both in a sitemap index.

Thanks again!!

Greetings,

I'm looking for a way to generate a sitemap that will include static pages on my home directory, as well as my wordpress blog.  The site that I'm trying to build this for is in a temporary folder, and can be accessed at http://www.lifewaves.com/Website 3.0

I plan on moving the contents of this folder to the root directory for lifewaves.com whenever we are go for launch.

What I'm wondering is, is there a way to build a sitemap or sitemap index that will point to the static pages of my site, as well as the wordpress blog while taking advantage of the built in wordpress hierarchy?  If so, what's an easy way to do this.  I have generated a sitemap using Yoast, but I can't seem to find any xml files within the wordpress folder. Within the plugin is a button that I can click to access the sitemap index, but it just brings me to the homepage of my blog.

Can I build a sitemap index that points to a sitemap for the static pages as well as the sitemap generated by yoast?  Thank you in advance for your help!!

P.S. I'm kind of a noob.