: Is it a problem to have the same URL in multiple sitemaps? I have created a complete sitemap for a big website. To keep track of the pages I have split them into multiple sitemaps, depending

@Nimeshi995

If you're talking about images, then image URL will end with their extension like example.com/uploads/my-file.jpg, so it is not consider as duplicate URL.

And don't believe on moz, their most of analysis are depends on their assumption, and URL mention by Analog is same. Sitemap used for crawling purpose, so how it can be manipulated for any purpose?

Even Google suggest to submit our website RSS feed to webmaster tools, and it contains same recent URL with different markup. And Google like it if you submit both. Overall sitemap is used for indexing purpose, submitting same sitemap twice, will not make you on trouble :)

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@Pope3001725

According to a blog post on MOZ about multiple sitemaps:


It is still just one URL, but the engines prefer to not have URLs
duplicated across sitemaps.

In this way, you are sending a lower quality signal about your
sitemaps. Certainly this can happen, like any duplication, but if it
is rampant, hundreds-thousands of URLs duplicated across multiple
sitemaps might lead the engines to believe that your are trying to
manipulate them in some way and I wouldn't be surprised if they
trusted the sitemaps less, which may defeat the purpose of having them
in the first place.

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