So I used to have every single page in my /sitemap.xml for my website but at some point Google stopped completely reading from it. It has been like 2 years since Google has read it according to the Search Console. Due to this I started creating /authors/sitemap/0.xml, /news/sitemap/0.xml, /college-football/rankings/sitemap/0.xml and a custom API route for Google News sitemaps since Next.js doesn't support it yet /news-sitemap.xml. The most I have in a single sitemap is 565 which is under /news/sitemap/0.xml.

However, as I am restructuring the website and expanding want the website covers I am starting to rethink how I set up/handle sitemaps, especially as I update the routing structure to the website. For example, /news is changing to /college/news, and /news/[division] and /news/[division]/[conference] is changing to /college/[sport]/news/[division] and /college/[sport]/news/[division]/[conference].

Is it better to just cram everything into the root sitemap.xml or should I try creating sitemaps under the dynamic routes? However, sitemap.ts does not have access to params so they would have to be custom API routes. Any ideas/help would be great!