: I think you are confusing two different types of sitemaps. You mention XML sitemaps but give HTML pages as examples. An HTML sitemap is just a regular web page, like your home page or about

@Yeniel560

I think you are confusing two different types of sitemaps. You mention XML sitemaps but give HTML pages as examples.

An HTML sitemap is just a regular web page, like your home page or about page. Search engines do nothing special with them, they just follow all the links as normal.

An XML sitemap is a special file created for search robots to read. The format is explained here. Normal users would not look at this file, but you can submit XML sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools (and Yahoo and Bing equivalents).

You can submit as many XML sitemaps as you like, plus RSS/Atom feeds too. In your case you only have two sitemaps so just go ahead and submit both.

However, if you have many sitemap files, it is usually beneficial to create a sitemap index file, which lists all the other sitemaps. See the relevant section on the linked page. Now you only need to submit one file to GWT, and Googlebot will pick up all the other sitemaps. This is also pretty useful if you have a huge site and generate the sitemap files automatically.

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