📘 This article provides guidance on how to split sitemaps in SmartIndex's Generate Sitemaps destination. SmartIndex is part of Botify's Activation Suite, available with a Botify Pro or Enterprise plan.
Overview
You can align your sitemap strategy with your company's SEO goals, site structure, business strategy, and monitoring needs by enabling SmartIndex to automatically split sitemaps in Generate Sitemaps. Splitting sitemaps does not impact which URLs are included in sitemaps, only how they are grouped into individual sitemaps.
💡 Use SmartIndex's split sitemaps option to organize sitemaps instead of creating individual segments in your project segmentation for each sitemap category.
Sitemap Strategies
The following are suggestions for strategies you may want to consider based on your business and website type.
Split by section
Split by section > country > language
Split by country > language > section
Splitting by Sections
Split your sitemaps by SmartIndex sections, which group your pages by type. This strategy is ideal for:
E-commerce, media, and content-heavy sites with clearly defined page types.
When each content type has different update frequencies or indexing priorities.
For example:
Splitting by Section > Country > Language
Split your sitemaps first by sections, then countries, followed by languages. This strategy is ideal for:
Multinational sites and content adapted by market and language.
Brands that want to track performance and changes per content type in each location.
For example:
Splitting by Country > Language > Section
Split your sitemaps first by countries, then languages, followed by sections. This strategy is ideal for:
Companies focused on regional SEO operations.
Businesses that tailor entire site sections by market (not just translating content).
For example:
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