| Is it ok to have sitemap files on a separate directory? | lmwebmaster | 4/11/12 11:06 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: My site's URL (web address) is: http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/ I'm using the robots.txt to let the search engines know that my website have its sitemaps in a different directory. http://www.land |
| Re: Is it ok to have sitemap files on a separate directory? | webado | 4/12/12 1:16 AM | Did you try submitting them from Webmaster Tools? I think it's OK now, there used to be a tme when it wasn't OK to have them in a folder lower than the highest folder in the site (generally the root). |
| Re: Is it ok to have sitemap files on a separate directory? | webado | 4/12/12 1:16 AM | Did you say ten million ???? Creepers! |
| Re: Is it ok to have sitemap files on a separate directory? | cy80rg | 4/12/12 1:38 AM | Yes, I'd agree - this does seem acceptable now... http://searchengineland.com/sitemapsorg-update-you-can-now-store-your-xml-sitemap-files-anywhere-13476 Now, does anyone know... a) If you can build a single robots.txt covering multiple-domains exp |
| Re: Is it ok to have sitemap files on a separate directory? | Phil Payne | 4/12/12 5:00 AM | All well and good, but I think multiple Sitemap: directives in robots.txt are still not supported. A structure like this really requires a sitemap index, with a pointer to that from robots.txt |
| Re: Is it ok to have sitemap files on a separate directory? | webado | 4/12/12 6:24 AM | No. All directives apply to the domain (or subdomain) in the root of which the robots.txt file is locatd. |