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

It's recommended to create a sitemap index file, rather separate XML URLs to put in your your robots.txt file.

Then, put the indexed sitemap URL as below in your robots.txt file.

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml

If you want to learn how to create indexed sitemap URL, then follow this guide from sitemap.org

Best Practice:

• Create image sitemap, video sitemap separately if your website has huge number of such contents.
• Check spelling of robots file, it should be robots.txt, don't use robot.txt or any misspelling. Put robots.txt file in root directly only.
• For more info, you can visit robots.txt's official website.