Multiple Sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools

Here' show it shows our Sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools. Is this alright? Shall I remove something?

Is this the reason we've a drop in traffic since last 2 months? (after upgrade)

Hello Kaustubh,

Remove all these sitemaps and submit sitemap_index.xml.gz only, sitemap_index will automatically notify all search engines with all the sitemaps that vBSEO has generated it

Hi Kaustubh,

I would disagree with Marco, The first sitemap in the list appears to be from vBSEO the other 3 are from whatever you have in your domain root. including the /forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz will not include the sitemaps from your site route so you should make sure you have these included...

However it does seem that you should remove the 2nd sitemap as it is no longer valid and the third one because it is duplicated... This should leave you with just forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz and sitemap.xml.gz

Ceri

Thanks for your responses! I've the sitemaps in 'All (4)' but none in 'mine' (see image). I therefore don't have the 'delete' option for those sitemaps.

Google webmaster help says simply click 'delete' button, but there's no such button.

Also, shall I manually submit a sitemap in 'Mine' thing?

*Ping*

Can someone please reply?

You're not logged in with correct credentials.

On the very first page of webmaster tools
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
the right column gives you owner options to add more people to your list. You need to use the correct login to have access to the correct areas.