Hi simeonquarrie! Thank you for your reply. WOW! You have some very huge sites indeed! Well I just checked this out, and Google recommends this:
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Webmaster Help Center - What can a Sitemap contain?
A Sitemap file can contain no more than 50,000 URLs and be no larger than 10MB when uncompressed. If your Sitemap is larger than this, break it into several smaller Sitemaps. These limits help ensure that your web server is not overloaded by serving large files to Google.
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And, of course, I don't know exactly how you have your sitemaps setup, but if you are only using one for your 60,000 page site, it is possible that you may not have all of your pages from that site being indexed by Google. So, IMHO, its a good idea to do random checks on various URLs from your sites by simply copying and pasting them into the Google search box and seeing if Google has them indexed or not. Most of the time, they are. But, in my case, I have had a few occasions whereby some of my pages were not indexed by Google even though they were included within my Google sitemap! Well, as I wrote above, its not a perfect system, but it is pretty good and includes so much valuable information that can potentially help webmasters improve their sites' visibility and, possibly, their sites' SERPS rankings if they understand and follow the sitemaps data results and make ALL appropriate changes. Obviously, one should never overlook or ignore any data that Google provides about one's site. No way.