Submitting Multiple Sitemaps

**SonnyCooL** · 22 February, 2010, 18:55 PM

currently use wp sitemap generator with two sitemap (xml and xml.gz), my question is should i submit both sitemap to google webmaster tool or either one only ?

cause my Mr. G webmaster tool show below static :
sitemap.xml = submit url 39058 -- index url : 14245
sitemap.xml.gz = submit url 39085 -- index url : 14245

but google = site:malaysiacar.org show 34100 url index.

**5starpix** · 22 February, 2010, 21:09 PM

sitemap.xml should do the work for you

**Kovich** · 22 February, 2010, 21:31 PM

There is no difference between .xml and .xml.gz other than the fact that .gz uses less bandwidth.

The search engines won't show any preference for either one, but I believe that Google automatically detects .xml.gz first to help save you some resources, but if you don't have it, it just uses .xml

Google also recommends, however, that you have an xml sitemap and an HTML sitemap for visitors. See this:
HTML vs XML Sitemap

**hambo** · 23 February, 2010, 15:03 PM

You only need to submit the one sitemap. As Kovich said the gz one is just a compressed version.

**texashiker** · 23 February, 2010, 20:47 PM

Submit the sitemap, and then submit the RSS feed from your site. Just incase something happens to the sitemap, google will be able to grab something.

Its been about a year ago, I changed some settings on my sitemap - which caused it to stop working. Over the course of 2 months, google delisted about 250,000 of my pages.

By using the RSS feed as a sitemap, you have 2 separate scripts feeding information to your google account.

**SonnyCooL** · 23 February, 2010, 21:30 PM

Originally Posted by texashiker

Submit the sitemap, and then submit the RSS feed from your site. Just incase something happens to the sitemap, google will be able to grab something.

Its been about a year ago, I changed some settings on my sitemap - which caused it to stop working. Over the course of 2 months, google delisted about 250,000 of my pages.

By using the RSS feed as a sitemap, you have 2 separate scripts feeding information to your google account.

i use feedburner but it seem like i'm having error to submit feedburner to google webmaster tool .... any solution ?

**Kovich** · 23 February, 2010, 21:34 PM

FeedBurner isn't a sitemap. It's an RSS tool. But as someone above mentioned, submitting both is good.

However, I don't think you can submit a FeedBurner URL in the Webmaster Panel. Try the Wordpress RSS.

Take a look at these to see the differences:

Sitemap: http://www.runningonlinebusiness.com/sitemap.xml
Feedburner RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RunningOnlineBusiness
Wordpress RSS: http://www.runningonlinebusiness.com/feed

When you submit /feed to your Google Webmaster Tools Panel, it will be registered and you'll see 'Format: RSS Feed'

**texashiker** · 24 February, 2010, 13:05 PM

Originally Posted by SonnyCooL

i use feedburner but it seem like i'm having error to submit feedburner to google webmaster tool .... any solution ?

Submit your sites real RSS feed and forget about feedburner.

If you submit your sites RSS feed as a sitemap, be sure to check the number of articles to be listed in your feed. I have mine set to 10. That way google gets 10 URLs everytime it grabs the feed. 10 URLs may not sound like a lot, but its better then nothing.

**SonnyCooL** · 2 April, 2010, 23:24 PM

any good site map plugin able to split sitemap to two or more part ?
cause i read some where, google don't index sitemap with more then 50,000 page, is that true ?
thanks