Compressed XML Sitemaps use GZip compression and are supported by search engines like Google. The gz file extension usually means the file uses compression.

http://ygm.net/sitemap-13.xml.gz. http://ygm.net/sitemap-14.xml.gz ... .net/sitemap-17.xml.gz. http://ygm.net/sitemap-18.xml.gz. http://ygm.net/sitemap-19.xml.gz ...

Oct 1, 2008 ... Hi, I wonder what will be a better choice using .xml or .xml.gz I prefer .xml since Yahoo! and Live might get it to work as well, no idea if another search ...

Sep 17, 2009 ... We've been receiving quite a bit of traffic to our old sitemap generator, which was created a few years back and is a bit outdated.

Jul 4, 2009 ... So, what's the question? I'm sorry but I don't really understand what's the issue, other than the filetype thingie. ... OK, I think I understand ...