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Originally Posted by costanza
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?? |
The benefit to the xml.gz is that the file size is smaller. This is helpful for sites with many urls or sites that have low bandwidth for their hosting. In general however it is not necessary.
You don't want to have both the xml and the sitemap.xml.gz populated. You should use one or the other, only add one to your robots.txt, and make sure that file is specified properly in your Google webmasters account.