Site has 3 sitemaps: which to delete

  • tark94

    (@tark94)


    5 years ago

    I bought a WordPress site that came with a Yoast plugin – which itself generates a sitemap.

    Yoast is currently pointing to these 2 sitemaps:
    https://mySite/post-sitemap.xml
    https://mySite/page-sitemap.xml

    A few months ago, before I knew what I was doing, I generated my own sitemap and submitted it to Google search console. That sitemap is this one (I haven’t updated it in 6 months despite adding lots of new posts):
    https://mySite/sitemap_index.xml

    I just discovered the Yoast sitemaps recently. Which of these to delete?

    My understanding is that Yoast is dynamically updating the two sitemaps whenever I publish new content. But I haven’t updated the sitemap on Google in a long while.

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    5 years ago

    Keep the Yoast one and delete the other one. The Yoast one is dynamic so will update itself as you publish more items.

    JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    5 years ago

    Keep the two Yoast sitemaps. Your older one has done its job so you can delete it now and any search engine or spider will find the new ones (pages and posts) and spider those.

    Thread Starter tark94

    (@tark94)

    5 years ago

    Got it. Thanks all

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