Title: Multiple Sitemaps?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multiple Sitemaps?

 *  [robertallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertallen/)
 * (@robertallen)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-sitemaps/)
 * I was having a problem getting a Yoast sitemap generated, and when I finally 
   did, it generated 3 sitemaps, and when you click on one of them it goes to another
   sitemap. One for Posts, one for pages and one for attachments.
 * Is this right for sitemaps?
 * [http://www.singleinstilettos.com/sitemap_index.xml](http://www.singleinstilettos.com/sitemap_index.xml)
 * Also, shouldn’t it be named sitemap.xml, not sitemap_index.xml
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  Thread Starter [robertallen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertallen/)
 * (@robertallen)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-sitemaps/#post-3507689)
 * Anyone have any thoughts on this?
 *  [Rick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rferrall/)
 * (@rferrall)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-sitemaps/#post-3507691)
 * Yes, this is correct – WordPress SEO works like this. If you want to disable 
   pages, posts or attachments, or add tags or categories, those options are on 
   the XML sitemaps options page for this plugin.
 * Here’s a writeup on why it’s no longer named sitemap.xml:
 * [http://yoast.com/xml-sitemap-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/](http://yoast.com/xml-sitemap-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/)
 * Probably search for, “Which sitemap should I submit to Google Webmaster Tools”
   and read that & the next FAQ item.
 * Personally, I just grab the individual sitemaps and add those to my Google Webmasters
   account.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-sitemaps/#post-3507691)
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