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How to manage a growing sitemap without adversely affecting search rankings

Hi, thanks in advance for your help.

To clarify the question would require asking another related question first:

1. If I change the file location of a ranking site from sitemap-1 to sitemap-2, will I lose my rankings?

2. If so, how should I be managing my sitemap for a constantly growing website? Let's say I prefer to group related articles together on the same sitemap and I only have 30 links per sitemap. This will inevitably cause some older pages to spill onto later sitemap page numbers.

I hope that makes sense. Thanks for your help.
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I apologize for the delay. Great answers, thanks very much.

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Thank you for the kind words and the A.  I'm glad to be able to help out.