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Separate sitemap for raw notes

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For the personal website deepakness.com, I had only one sitemap file at /sitemap.xml earlier. But as I am publishing a lot more raw notes now, the single sitemap file was getting bigger so I created a separate sitemap for raw notes.

Now, my raw notes sitemap is at /raw-notes.xml and the rest (blog posts and a few pages) are at /sitemap.xml.

You can have up to 50,000 URLs in a sitemap as Google suggests, but keeping the sitemap file smaller is a good practices in general from the SEO perspective. For example, in WordPress, SEO plugins like Rank Math and Yoast only keep 200 URLs in a sitemap file by default, and create new sitemaps after each next 200 URLs.

And have also added both sitemap URLs in the robots.txt file. Again, not required, but good to have.

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