Benefit Of Multiple Sitemap Files

**Hafsoh** · 05-13-2009 10:29 PM

Does submitting multiple site maps to Google Webmaster Tools gives any benefit compared to a single sitemap?
Is there any SEO advantage of having multiple sitemaps for your website?

**temi** · 05-14-2009 05:55 AM

If you have a large website and you want to set different crawl rate for various sections of your website then definately, multiple site map will be quite useful to you.

**sam09** · 05-17-2009 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by temi

If you have a large website and you want to set different crawl rate for various sections of your website then definately, multiple site map will be quite useful to you.

yep... It will be helpful in such a case.

**Stella_Roberts** · 05-22-2009 08:08 AM

You can provide multiple Sitemap files, but each Sitemap file that you provide must have no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 10MB when uncompressed. These limits help to ensure that your web server does not get bogged down serving very large files.

If you want to list more than 50,000 URLs, you must create multiple Sitemap files. If you anticipate your Sitemap growing beyond 50,000 URLs or 10MB, you should consider creating multiple Sitemap files. If you do provide multiple Sitemaps, you can list them in a Sitemap index file. A Sitemap index file can list up to 50,000 Sitemaps.

**RiverWire** · 05-22-2009 12:21 PM

I have an IPB forum which if the seo plugin is installed it greats around 4 Sitemap files , one for posts, one for categories and so on and so on . Not sure if i like it or not really