two sitemaps - possible downside?

Started by nickyfsh, 05-08-2013, 06:29:37

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Dear community,

I am using a web shop software and for some reason the main page (http://www.mysite.com/) is not being listed / generated within the automatic sitemap.xml while every other page is.

My question now: Without dabbling to much into technicalities and why the page is not being generated in the first place I would like to know if this problem can be solved by just simply manually creating an additional sitemap file (calling it sitemap-home.xml) which just contains information related to the index and submit it?

e.g.:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
      <url>
        <loc>http://www.mysite.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2013-05-05</lastmod>
        <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
        <priority>1.0</priority>
      </url>
    </urlset>


Would this approach work and if so, would there be any considerable downsides?

Some expert advise would be appreciated.

Thank you very much,
Nicky
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