I'm using CDSEO and see that I can create a gzip version of the .xml sitemap. My server has gzip enabled.
- Is there a benefit to using the sitemap.xml.gz version instead of just the regular sitemap.xml?
- If I enable the .gz version, should I then delete the regular sitemap.xml (and vice versa)? I noticed when I generated the .gz version, the regular sitemap contents were cleared. I then generated the regular version again and now have both files with sitemaps loaded.
I want to be clear on this. I'm concerned having an empty sitemap file, or having both the zipped and unzipped sitemaps may cause SEO problems?
3. If I end up using both, should I point to both in my robots file??