Question Re Sitemaps
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Hi,
I was originally using the sitemap at mysite/sitemap.xml – which listed all of the sitemaps within the index, making it really easy to re-submit if one of the sitemaps started returning errors.
I was looking through my website yesterday and noticed that my actual sitemap was located at mysite/sitemap_index.xml, so I changed the reference in my robots.txt file and submitted this last sitemap into Google Search Console.
All well and good, but Google is now telling me that I have around double the amount of pages that are on my website – which is only to be expected as I’ve theoretically submitted two sitemaps.
Quick question then – is this a recognised practice? Or should I be deleting one of the sitemaps from Google Search Console?
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