Sitemap Troubles

If I understand correctly, if you have subdomain multisite, then you’ll have one robots.txt file under each install, eg: site1.main.com/robots.txt, site2.main.com/robots.txt. And if you have subfolder multisite, then you’ll have just one robots.txt file under main.com/robots.txt that will contain all the sitemaps, no?

Two questions: first of all, I have a sub-folder install, and my robots.txt file only says:

# Added by Link Alias Generator (LAG) module
User-agent: *
Disallow: /go/
# End LAG

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://jotcreative.net/sitemapindex.xml

Is that right? I unchecked and rechecked the option in the plugin to add the site indexes to robots.txt, but it sure doesn’t look like it’s adding all 7 of the sites in my multisite…

Second…is there any benefit to switching to subdomain over subfolder? Can’t remember why I picked one over the other, but…

no, one robots.txt file works for all sites regardless of format. Same as one set of wp files for all sites.

Right, but shouldn’t that one robots.txt file link to the individual sitemaps, not just the sitemap for the main blog?

I wouldn’t put the sitemap link in there myself.

At all? Hm. Now I’m very confused, especially in light of Ipstenu’s recommendations (see screenshot). Maybe OddOneOut can shed some light on the plugin itself.

I would, actually, list all the sitemaps there. I do on one site.

Then again I don’t always bother with a sitemap, since if everything’s linked, what do I need it for other than priority… And page age tends to cover that, in my experience.

Is that right? I unchecked and rechecked the option in the plugin to add the site indexes to robots.txt, but it sure doesn’t look like it’s adding all 7 of the sites in my multisite…

I will improve this in the next version, if you can wait :).

Of COURSE I can! Great plugin. ?? Was looking for an effective multisite solution…

I don’t always bother with a sitemap, since if everything’s linked, what do I need it for other than priority… And page age tends to cover that, in my experience.

Yeah that’s usually my rationale.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions