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I will have two sitemaps for my website. The first sitemap is the .xml version for the search engines. The second sitemap is a sitemap.php on my website for the users.

I know I can list the sitemap.xml in the robots.txt file as follows:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Can I list sitemap.php in the robots.txt? Will it be read by the search engines? 

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.php

Or would it be best to let Google/Bing etc. find sitemap.php, when and if it gets to the website?

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Can I list sitemap.php in the robots.txt?

No, that wouldn't work. The XML Sitemap goes in robots.txt. The public-facing site map will be crawled by search engines like any other page.

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    You can have your sitemap.xml file displayed as HTML though. This can be done using the extensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT), which is shown here.
    – SameOldNick
    Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 15:03
  • @ub3rst4r, I looked up the link, thanks for the info, good to know ;-)
    – Andy R
    Commented Mar 20, 2016 at 14:09

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