Partial Sitemaps Impact on SERP
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I have a website having 20 different categories.
But have the sitemap for only 1 category and rest 19 categories will not have the sitemaps will this have an impact on the search results on not
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Sitemaps won't affect your SERP greatly, but it will help to speed up the crawling process on your website. I'm not sure why you have sitemap for only 1 category. For the sake of completeness, why not just have sitemaps for the entire site? Its not that hard to set up a sitemap.
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It will affect the time it takes to get your site indexed. What is the purpose for only sitemapping one category?
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