: Same sitemap submitted for .com and .co.uk domain Not to sure why I did this. But I submitted the same sitemap for our .co.uk and .com domain. Looking to put the .com domain on different

@Hamm4606531

The best way to do this is to redirect all .com traffic to your .co.uk domain, using a 301 (permament) redirect; then ensuring that the canonical link is correctly specified at the top of the page as the .co.uk domain.

If you continue running a website on .com with the same content as .co.uk, you are splitting your traffic between the two (which means you're lower in Google than you need to be). You're inviting people to share links to the .com website (meaning your details in Facebook/Twitter will be messed up), and you're causing significant issues for the future.

Sitemaps can only contain links to "a single domain only", according to the specification. There is a relatively complex way of hosting a sitemap for a different domain, which is what you're doing here: search the specification for "Cross Submits".

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@Ogunnowo487

If you accidentally submit the wrong XML sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) eg. by submitting the .co.uk sitemap to the .com domain. Then simply delete the erroneous sitemap in GWT (Crawl > Sitemaps, check the erroneous sitemap and hit [Delete]). And then submit the correct one (if you have one).

If you submit the sitemap for the wrong domain, as in this case, then Google is likely to simply ignore it, since it will be invalid. (I would have thought that Google would inform you of an error, under "Issues"?)

At the end of the day, an XML sitemap is only advisory. Google will only see it as a suggestion.

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@Kimberly868

Content for each domain is exactly the same. Pritty sure Google isn't penalising my site at the moment. Making sure it won't in the future.

There is only one sitemap file, all domain have the same route folders as under all with one hosting.

When setting up the site didn't have a clue so submitted exactly the same sitemap for .com and .co.uk. If you open up the sitemap linked to the .com it has .co.uk URL's.

Guessing it won't be a problem in the long run by the sound of things?

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