Multiple types of sitemaps

[TVFreak]

Hi,

Simple question, I have a 3 XML sitemaps:

• One for for News
• One for Videos
• One for all Pages (this one will probably be splited because I have a lot of content)

How do I present that to google? In webmaster tool and in the robots.txt?

[AlanBleiweiss]

The best practice here is to create a sitemap index - a single sitemap XML file that lists each of the individual sitemap files.

That then becomes the sitemap you reference in your robots.txt file and to help speed up the process of crawling, submit that through Google and Bing webmaster tools. (You only need to submit that index file - their systems will then "discover" all the individual files listed in it).

See Google's sitemap index how-to.