I've actually been working on my own site's sitemap, and I've figured out a bunch of things: You can use a sitemap index [0] to split a sitemap into multiple o

I've actually been working on my own site's sitemap, and I've figured out a bunch of things: You can use a sitemap index [0] to split a sitemap into multiple ones. This is beneficial because you can change part of it and not have to have google re-crawl everything, since index updates happen right after a whole sitemap has been crawled. As a result, changes you make to a smaller sitemap get indexed way faster. I've switched to grouping my bulk pages into sitemaps alphabetically, and then putting important ones (front page, about) into different sitemaps, and specific landing pages into yet another different one. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemap_index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemap_index