My store resides a level down from the root of my website …
http://www.qualitypromosplus.com is the website …
http://www.qualitypromosplus.com/store is the store …
Recently, I deleted my sitemap.xml in the root of the site and started using the CSCart Google Site Map Addon.
The addon appears to be working and if I go to http://www.qualitypromosplus.com/store/sitemap.xml I see it and it is current.
I am currently pointing to that sitemap in my robots.txt
Here are my questions …
- Does having pages at root of the site above /store/ negatively impact SEO on my store pages
- My top level site pages are no longer part of my sitemap because Google Site Map only works from /store/ as the root. Can you have multiple sitemaps … like a sitemap at the root that includes a link to the sitemap at the /store/ level. Or, can you have multiple sitemaps listed in robots.txt?
I guess at the end of the day it get down to the question … does the store need to be at the website root to achieve optimal SEO?