Should I create a separate sitemap.xml for paginated categories?

[esiow2013]

For example:

http://www.site.com/category/sub-category

http://www.site.com/category/sub-category/1

http://www.site.com/category/sub-category/2

http://www.site.com/category/sub-category/3

Thanks in advance!

[IainReloadMedia]

Hey Housing Interactive,

Good question. The answer depends on if you are targeting those paginated pages with different keywords to the main sub-category. It's highly likely you're not.

The other advantage of having those pages indexed is it's more internal links to point at your most important pages.

However, Search Engines only allocate a certain amount of bandwidth/processing power to crawl your site. If it uses that time up crawling less important sub-category paginated pages, it could miss the more important pages you want to rank.

Therefore in short, I wouldn't bother.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

[esiow2013]

Thanks man!