: The short answer is it doesn't matter. Google doesn't really care where your sitemap is located as long as it can find it. My personal preference would be to have one 'main' sitemap at example.co.uk/sitemap.xml

@Angela700

The short answer is it doesn't matter. Google doesn't really care where your sitemap is located as long as it can find it.

My personal preference would be to have one 'main' sitemap at example.co.uk/sitemap.xml that lists different maps for your site. This way you could have one map for your desktop pages and one for your mobile pages, for example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.example.co.uk/non-mobile.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.example.co.uk/mobile.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

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