: Does sitemap file need to have extension .xml Im using a cms that generates a sitemap automatically but without ".xml". IS this ok? Can we put this is our robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.mydoamin.com/sitemap

@Cugini213

You can have 2 types of sitemap. One for Website users which can be in html or text and another for only Search Engine which is needed only in .xml format.

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@Eichhorn148

Not mandatory. Google's guidelines allow xml, txt and html formats. Look into guidelines to get further info.

Note: if sitemap has any other format as xml, it must be encoded as utf-8 and contain nothing more then urls one per line. Sitemap in xml format allows containing of some additional informations.

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