Say again? Your post makes absolutely no sense to me. The above is my robots.txt file in my site root.....It keeps robots from accessing all those files listed......my question is....where would I put the the sitemap information...."http:/www.MYsite.com/sitemap.xml" in the above file?

Reading this from the original post would help:
So just put it anywhere in your robots.txt. I would put it right before the first disallow.

well, I read the original post, which is why I asked the question.......

you'd think maybe answering questions without rudeness would make for a better experience for everyone......maybe some of us aren't quite the programming expert you are. I wasn't sure where exactly to put it.

I'm no programming expert...I just use common sense.

Common sense? Like maybe not posting when you don't have anything to add to a discussion?

People like you baffle me

ok, now everybody cools down or I close the thread. We're here to help each other and not to yell, if you feel the urge, well go elsewhere.

Regarding the original question. It is clear I understood wrong.

First remark, why want to hide your sidemap to spiders ? Basically it is made for them and via via even to submit that directly to Google, Yahoo etc...

If you really want to hide it..


Disallow: /sitemap.xml

should do the trick

I don't want to hide my sitemap.......that is my robots.txt file......I wanted to know exactly where to place the sitemap to make sure it ISN'T hidden.

in that case just don't do anything, it'll be read now
as you can see in your robots.txt there are onlyu disallow lines, clearly not allowed to read those files, if it isn't listed then it will be read.

just don't put it in the directories (lines ending with /) that are disallowed completely

I think you may have misunderstood eric:

It in fact does say to add it to your robots.txt file. Instead of putting Disallow: /whatever/, it says to put Sitemap: /whatever/. This will help the 4 big search engines to find your sitemap; even though you can submit your sitemaps automatically, this, to me, would be more sufficient because spiders ALWAYS read the robots.txt file.

I do believe I did add to the discussion telling you exactly what you have to do and where to put it, yet you still are having troubles...no wonder I baffle you.

This is what I'm adding to top of my robot.txt page

I think I'll add the link to the blogs sitemap and the directories sitemap and I'll put it in all 3 robot.txt files