Hey,
Just wanted to clear one confusion.
When we enable yoast XML site option- It creates one parent XML sitemap like this:
https://mydomain.com/sitemap_index.xml
and then many other children XMLs link based on the settings like this:
https://mydomain.com/category-sitemap.xml
https://mydomain.com/page-sitemap.xml
https://mydomain.com/post-sitemap.xml
https://mydomain.com/post_format-sitemap.xml
1. Should I only submit the parent XML to Google, Bing etc. or Children XMLs too?
2. I know that Parent XML by default contain these children XML files but when I submitted all these to Google Search Console, I noticed that Children XMLs gets “Submitted” instantly ( not indexed) while Parent XML is still showing “PENDING” for last 2 hours and it usually take time up to 8-10 hours just to get submitted. Why so?
3. What if I submit all these links ( Parent and children XML both), will it cause any conflict? On MOZ, I read it that it’s always good to have a multiple XMLs on Search Engine.
4. What if I create XML from two different plugins ( say Google XML generator plugin and Yoast XML) Is it good and recommendable?
Thank you.
PS: Not related to Newspaper theme but I think our community is wide enough to clear such silly confusions 🙂
Hello nano2408,
As you said above, all of these questions are not related to our theme, sorry! Please keep in mind that we are web developers, not SEO Experts and I guess that all of these questions would be better placed on their forum because they are aware to offers you a more accurate response in this regard. I found this link which may be could be useful for you, like this -> https://yoast.com/xml-sitemap-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi,
For 1,2 & 3: submit only the sitemap_index.xml (and not the childs).
For 4: never use 2 sitemaps!
Hello Nairolf,
Thank you for the clear suggestion.
Hello Catalin,
Yes, I understand. Thanks for the link.
