Renumbering the sitemaps

  • Resolved brvnbld

    (@brvnbld)


    2 months ago

    I have been wondering , if the sitemaps are numbered from 1 to say 30, the page-sitemap1.xml will have recently published pages, and page-sitemap30 will have the oldest published pages. If so when new pages are published, won’t the URLs in all the sitemaps get changed, because of that?. Wouldn’t it be tedious for Google to recrawl all the sitemaps?. Can we change the sitemaps name for the oldest to be page-sitemap1, and latest to be page-sitemap30, etc?.

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  • Plugin Author Auctollo

    (@auctollo)

    Thanks for your question. The number of sitemaps is determined by your site’s total number of pages, how they’re organized, and so on. Sitemaps will be ordered from most recent to oldest in the next release. Typically, the number of sitemaps stays mostly the same, and regardless, the use of a single sitemap index allows for changes in your settings or content to make it easy for search engines. All of the above are best practices.

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