Sep
05Sitemaps and big sites
Tags : SEO Posted in: Search Engine Optimisation
I’m just thinking I really need sitemaps for softtester but theres 60,000 urls / dynamic pages.
Even if I have a-z pages, the sitemap files are going to be huge.
What should I do ?
by JM
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You have to split the sitemap into multiple pieces. Google only takes 50000 pages at maximum in one file. Have a look at this link: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/XML/Q_23094193.html
Right I see so I need a sitemap index file, which can point up to a 1,000 sitemaps.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#sitemapFileRequirements
And as you say each sitemap can have a maximum of 50,000 page links in it.
Well thats fine for me.
In fact I have less than 60,000, as I have pads which have been flagged no to be shown.
But still, I’m surprised you can have 50,000, will be quite a big file.
Thanks G