@Marie_Haynes in generally speaking, we to often look just at the client not their clients and work to benefit to them, the end user.
Only having this perspective in mind will solve so many things
@Marie_Haynes Google wants beyond "general" services to their users and a more customer-centric seo with an effect 4 the end user.
Beyond seo we do we need to guide & have a best practice, apply / send for validation all that information that we don't know, they do and are useful to people
@GregBernhardt4 2. Now since you say they are partially fetched i ran few tests and none could be ended.
Tried browser performance, pagespeed, webpagetest and all can't finish the tests.
Google might fetch partially what he can in a decent amount of loading time
@GregBernhardt4 1. have you tried to make them smaller?
Not saying the size limits are off but at least from my experience sitemaps within 20k are fetched fast.
@GregBernhardt4 ah well for large websites, that usually have branding power all that needs is good internal linking and should do the tricky part.
What i mean is that for a website with 9+ sitemaps to check particular URL in sitemap...daily cronjob
@MordyOberstein well...creating new content, not based on keywords volume, means creativity blended with innovation and user perspective ...hard for many.
Honestly i wouldn't expect so much from majority