I am currently in the process of migrating content from one domain to another domain, In this case I have some difficulty on how I should map the sitemap.
I currently have a sitemapindex file, which is split by culture. In my case I have a culture that is partially migrated, so some of the content exists in the old domain and the new domain.
I am not sure about what content exists in either domain, so to ensure that all pages are listed in the sitemap, my suggestion would be to have a nested sitemapindex, within the existing one.
Which point to a sitemap generated from the old domain and one from the new domain. But can the sitemapindex file be nested?
it would look something like this
sitemapindex-root
-> /da/sitemap.xml // example of fully migrated
-> /es/sitemapindex.xml //example of partially migrated
-> /es/sitemap.xml
-> /sitemap/es.xml
An alternative approach in case nested sitemapindex is not possible is to keep them at the root level
sitemapindex-root
-> /da/sitemap.xml // example of fully migrated
-> /es/sitemap.xml //example of partially migrated
-> /sitemap/es.xml //example of partially migrated
The partially migrated sitemaps will have overlap, as in the same url will be listed in both sitemaps - will that be an issue?
I only found it to be an issue in case it is in the same xml file, no issue in case it is in different xml files.
