Multiple Sitemap: entries in robots.txt?

Question

I have been searching around using Google but I can\'t find an answer to this question.

A robots.txt file can contain the following line:

Sitemap: http:/         


        

Answer 1

If your sitemap is over 10 MB (uncompressed) or has more than 50 000 entries Google requires that you use multiple sitemaps bundled with a Sitemap Index File.

• Using Sitemap index files (to group multiple sitemap files)

In your robots.txt point to a sitemap index which should look like this:

   
      http://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml.gz
      2012-10-01T18:23:17+00:00
   
   
      http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml.gz
      2012-01-01