More than 1 XML Sitemap

[BradBorst]

I recently took over administration of my site and I have 2 XML sitemaps for my main site and 1 XML sitemap for my blog (which is a sub-page of the main site).  Don't I only need 1 sitemap for my site and one for my blog?  I don't know which one to delete - they both has the same page authority.  Also, only 1 of them is accessible by browser search.

http://www.rmtracking.com/rmtracking-sitemap.xml - accessible in browser

http://www.rmtracking.com/sitemap.xml - regularly updated in Google Webmaster Tools but not accessible in search browser.  I don't have any error messages in Webmaster tools.

[tylerfraser]

You can have one sitemap that shows all pages or you can have one sitemap index file that points to multiple sitemaps.

If you submit a sitemap index file to google then it will show that you have several sitemaps. I would do this for your regular site and your blog. But it doesn't really matter. The goal is to get your pages seen.

This is a great resource: http://sitemaps.org

BTW the stylesheet is not allow this sitemap to be seen in firefox: http://www.rmtracking.com/sitemap.xml

[tylerfraser]

Code for multiple sitemaps:

<[sitemapindex](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#sitemapIndex_sitemapindex) xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <[sitemap](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#sitemapIndex_sitemap)>
      <[loc](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#sitemapIndex_loc)>http://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml.gz
      <[lastmod](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#sitemapIndex_lastmod)>2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00

   <[sitemap](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#sitemapIndex_sitemap)>
      <[loc](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#sitemapIndex_loc)>http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml.gz
      <[lastmod](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php#sitemapIndex_lastmod)>2005-01-01

[BradBorst]

Thanks Tyler.  I will check out that url.  I also learned of another site from an SEOMoz Sitemap video that makes it easy to create a sitemap: www.Gsitecrawler.com.

Thanks very much for your help.