Master Sitemap link in Header of site or Robots.txt

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  •  12-10-2022
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Question

I have a master sitemap that contains links to other site maps that is accessable on a path like:

www.website.com/sitemap.xml

I wanted to ask if this is enough for the search engines or if I need to link this to my site?

linking - I know I can use a robots.txt file but I is it possible to just add a link to the head of the site - something like (and I'm just guessing):

<head>
     <link rel="sitemap" type="application/xml" title="Sitemap" href="/sitemap.xml">
</head>

thankyou Adam

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Solution

This is totally okay.

Sitemap should always be located in the root and that is the only place where the search engines will look.

I suggest you to use a Google Webmasters tool to submit a sitemap for your domain so you can get indexed and you can monitor search engine behavior.

Hopefully this info will help you.

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