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Sitemap Creation

This is a discussion on Sitemap Creation within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap category; I've looked through the other sitemap questions or topics and I have a different one. Our VBSEO sitemap is fine, ...

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    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?

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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