Can I have Two Sitemap Index Files on Same Site? And have one reference the other?

[casbboy]

I have two sitemap index files on my site. One for the primary site and one for the blog in a subfolder. Is it possible to have the primary one send a link to the sub index?

Primary: http://www.traileraddict.com/sitemaps/maps.xml

Sub: http://www.traileraddict.com/article/sitemapindex.xml

Can I just do another sitemap>loc reference to http://www.traileraddict.com/article/sitemapindex.xml in my maps.xml?

Trying to find best way to do this.

Cheers!
Ryan

[bigstu]

Hi Ryan

Yes you can do that

Create a sitemap.xml file in your sitemap folder the add the following
This will reference your two file then you can just submit your sitemap.xml file to the search engine

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <sitemap>
      <loc>http://www.traileraddict.com/sitemaps/maps.xml</loc>
      <lastmod>2016-08-23T01:01:00+00:00</lastmod>
   </sitemap>
   <sitemap>
      <loc>http://www.traileraddict.com/article/sitemapindex.xml</loc>
      <lastmod>2016-08-23T01:01:00+00:00</lastmod>
   </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Hope that helps

[Zubair_Abbas]

Yes you can have more than one sitemaps. A simple example is this: http://www.marketresearchandstatistics.com/sitemap_index.xml

[casbboy]

Thanks guys. Yes, as bigstu said, I was curious about whether having two sitemap indexes was okay. So he setup an index to reference the two indexes.

Much appreciated!
Ryan