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I have a website with over 1 million url's. As such, I have 1 sitemap.xml file which acts as an index to many sitemap0000.xml.gz, sitemap0001.xml.gz ... sitemap0030.xml.gz etc. files.

My question is: In my robots.txt file how do I specify the sitemap file?

Do I refernce the sitemap.xml only? As in the following:

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: www.mysite.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml

Or do I have to specify ALL the *.xml.gz files in the sitemap too?

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    You need to include the protocol ("http://") when specifying the Sitemap URL in the robots.txt file. – John Mueller May 15 '12 at 18:49
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Yes, only refer to the index file. (See under the "Using robots.txt" heading.) It will then lead the crawler to the others.

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