YOAST Sitemap Question?

Hello,

Is there any difference if I will add sitemap by Yoast to Google Webmaster for just one time: for example:

website.com/ sitemap_index.xml

or I will add all separated parts which are inside sitemap_index.xml

website.com/post-sitemap.xml
website.com/ page-sitemap.xml

I believe that if you add website.com/ sitemap_index.xml it will count all internal sitemaps as well?

Yoast will create and update sitemaps for you, go over that configuration wizard and you are set. It will count all sitemaps you have. It will create post-sitemap, page-sitemap, attachment-sitemap etc. for you

Tristan Hektor said:

Hello,

Is there any difference if I will add sitemap by Yoast to Google Webmaster for just one time: for example:

website.com/ sitemap_index.xml

or I will add all separated parts which are inside sitemap_index.xml

website.com/post-sitemap.xml
website.com/ page-sitemap.xml

I believe that if you add website.com/ sitemap_index.xml it will count all internal sitemaps as well?

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You must add speperate part for better indexing

Yoast automatically uploads your sitemap. That's one of the features of yoast seo.

Don't individually add those individual sitemaps onto gwt - it's all there, just submit the main sitemap _ index .xml - that should do.
It doesn't has any differences if you submit individual ones - unless if your site is broken down into multiple versions of WP, then because they are different versions, the sitemap will not encompass the ones from other installations - then yes, you will need to individually submit the sitemaps.
But under normal circumstances, just submit one will do.

One submission is enough! Google will go through all of the links listed in sitemap and eventually index all listed links.