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How do I reference my sitemap in robots.txt?

It's a best practice to always reference your XML sitemap(s) in your robots.txt file.

Here are the rules of engagement:

  • Reference the absolute URL to your XML sitemap
  • You can reference multiple XML sitemaps
  • You can reference regular XML sitemaps, and XML sitemap indices
  • You can reference XML sitemaps on another domain, meaning: if your domain is example.com and your XML sitemap is on example2.com then you can reference that domain.

On top of this, we always recommend also submitting your XML sitemaps through Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

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