Sitemap files on different domains

Question

I am creating multiple sitemap files for my website. The issue is that my sitemap files are located on a different file server from my website. For example, I have a website by domain, www.example.com, however my sitemap index file and the other sitemap files reside on www.filestack.com.

My sitemap index file will look like:

<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
<sitemap>
<loc>
https://www.filestack.com/sitemap1.xml
</loc>
</sitemap>

Though my sitemap1.xml will be:

<url>
<loc>
https://www.example.com/test
</loc>
<lastmod>2017-09-04</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>

Is it possible to add links to do such a thing and how?

Snapdragon

Answer 1

See Sitemaps & Cross Submits.

You have to provide a robots.txt at https://www.example.com/robots.txt which links to the external sitemap:

Sitemap: https://www.filestack.com/sitemap1.xml

(This sitemap may only contain URLs from https://www.example.com/.)

Hynes

Answer 2

You can use either XML sitemap or HTML sitemap as per Matt Cutts says. It's not mandatory that you must use both sitemaps. Though you can't submit an HTML sitemap to search engines, spiders can crawl your HTML sitemap and crawl pages deeper into your site. But you can not use XML sitemap that is on the different server.

Schleicher