Sitemap Creation

I've looked through the other sitemap questions or topics and I have a different one.

Our VBSEO sitemap is fine, however I want to make a seperate sitemap for my website.

1) In that second sitemap should I exclude the forum? Or is double listing the forum or double mapping going to hurt me at all?

2) If I should and do exclude the forum, how do I do that?

Hello,

1. yes, you can exclude the forums from your second sitemap and submit both sitemaps to Google.

2. that depends on the software you will use to generate your second sitemap.

The final question in reference to question 1, should I exclude the forum on the websites sitemap or not?

It's not required, but you can exclude it.

Thank you Oleg. If it isn't required to exclude it, I don't see how it will hurt me to include it again. Ya know?

Now if it had negative ramifications in including it again, I wouldn't do it, but from what you are saying it doesn't, so that is cool.

The possible small issue might happen if you will include the same URLs in both sitemap with different attributes (priority/update frequency/lastmod), which may confuse search engines a bit, although that should not have significant impact I think.