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title: "Sitemaps: Submit Multiple Files to Search Engines"
description: Learn more about Submit Multiple Files to Search Engines in this guide.
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# Sitemaps: Submit Multiple Files to Search Engines
For an introduction to your store's sitemap, see ["How to Create a Sitemap"](https://helpcenter.volusion.com/s/article/CreatingaSitemap?hsLang=en-us)
As a business owner, you probably already know about the importance of showing up in search results. Its how you earn traffic, which can turn into big dollars for your store.
So how do you make sure search engines know about you? The best way is to create and submit a sitemap for your store.
### Whats a Sitemap?
A sitemap is a list of your websites pages. It can be used by site visitors to navigate your store, or by crawlers to tell search engines about the content that you have on your site, so they can serve it up in appropriate search results.
### Creating Your Sitemap(s)
Before you can submit your sitemap to search engines, youll need to create it. For an introduction, check out our article dedicated to ["How to Create a Sitemap."](https://help.volusion.com/s/creatingasitemap?hsLang=en-us)
Keep in mind that some search engines (like Google) have a sitemap size limit of 50,000 URLs and 10MB. If your store's sitemap exceeds either of these limits, you'll need to manually break up your sitemap into multiple pieces.
To do so:
1\. First, download the sitemap by going to:
```
http://www.yourvolusionstore.com/sitemap.xml
```
2\. Right-click anywhere on the page to bring up your browser's context menu.
3\. Select **Save As** or **Save Page As** (depending on your browser) and enter a location and name for the file.
4\. Open the file in a text editor such as Windows Notepad or Notepad ++
5\. Cut and paste the contents into smaller files, being sure to add the XML tags at the beginning and end appropriately. This means that each of the smaller sitemaps must start with:
```
```
and end with
```
```
6\. Label your sitemap files in a way that makes sense to you (for example: sitemap1.xml, sitemap2.xml,and so on).
7\. Once you've created the files, you'll need to create a sitemap index using the following format:
```
http://www.yourvolusionstore.com/v/sitemap1.xml2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00http://www.yourvolusionstore.com/v/sitemap2.xml2005-01-01
```
Name your index file something like yourcompany\_sitemapindex.xml, and use it to reference the specific file names you used for all your other sitemap files.
8\. Upload the sitemap files and the index file to the highest level of your [FTP](https://help.volusion.com/s/howtosetupyourvolusionftpsftpaccount?hsLang=en-us) (the /v/ directory).
9\. Because sitemaps must be at the same level as the file in which they're indexed, you'll need to create several [301 redirects](https://help.volusion.com/s/301redirects?hsLang=en-us) in your Admin Area at **Settings** \> **Maintenance** \> **Manage 301 Redirects**. For example:
```
Source Path = /yourcompany_sitemapindex.xml
Target Path = /v/yourcompany_sitemapindex.xml
```
```
Source Path = /sitemap1.xml
Target Path = /v/sitemap1.xml
```
```
Source Path = /sitemap2.xml
Target Path = /v/sitemap2.xml
```
```
Source Path = /sitemap3.xml
Target Path = /v/sitemap3.xml
```
### Submitting Your Sitemap To Search Engines
Once youve created a sitemap and ensured that its broken into small enough files to be accepted by Google, its time to submit them. Just follow the instructions on their [webmasters information page](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en).
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