Wordpress Blog Integrated into eCommerce site - Should we use one xml sitemap or two?

[Firebox]

Hi guys,

I wonder whether you can help me with a couple of SEO queries:

So we have an ecommerce website (www.exampleecommercesite.com) with its own xml sitemap, which we have submitted to the Google Webmasters Console. However, recently we decided to add a blog to our site for SEO purposes.

The blog is on a subdomain of the site such as:

blog.exampleecommercesite.com

(We wanted to have it as www.exampleecommercesite.com/blog but our server made it very difficult and it wasn't technically possible at the time)

1. Should we add the blog.exampleecommercesite.com as a separate property in the Google Webmaster tools?

2. Should we create a separate xml sitemap for the blog content or are there more benefits in terms of SEO if we have one sitemap for the blog and the ecommerce site?

If appreciate your opinions on the topic!

Thank you and have a good start of the week!

[LoganRay]

Since your blog is on a subdomain, yes, you will need to set up a separate WMT profile for it. The blog will also need its own robots.txt and XML sitemap files, since technically speaking, subdomains are regarded as a different site.

[Firebox]

Thanks Logan! This makes perfect sense but we just wanted to be 100% sure.

[LoganRay]

Glad to help!