How do you handle Wordpress sitemaps within your site?

[iresqkeith]

I have a regular site map on my site and I also have a Wordpress site installed within it that we use for blog/news content.  I currently have an auto-sitemap generator installed in Wordpress which automatically updates the sitemap and submits it to the search engines each time the blog is updated.

The question I have (which I think I know the answer to but I just want to confirm) is do I have to include all of the articles within the blog in the main site's sitemap despite the Wordpress sitemap having them in there already?

If I do include the articles in the main website's sitemap, they would also be in the Wordpress sitemap as well, which is redundant. Redundancy is not good, so I just want to make sure.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

You can just keep them separate and submit both sitemaps to GWT. That's your best course of action.

[iresqkeith]

So don't include links to the articles in the main sitemap if they are already in the wordpress sitemap?

[Brian-H]

If it's just for google you can have multiple sitemaps listed with them.

If you want a standalone tool to crawl your whole site http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html can work on a cron to crawl your whole site each day (as long as the wordpress is not a subdomain of the main site)

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Yep, no need. Won't hurt if you do (will probably get crawled twice or one will be ignored) but for the sake of keeping GWT sitemap data clean (pages submitted/indexed), don't duplicate the links.

Cheers,
Oleg

[ske11]

I use 2 different sitemaps and submit them both to Google and the other search engines