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This document describes the XML schema for the Sitemap protocol:
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XMLtag teinitions
The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags_
AIl data values in
Sitemap must be
Entity
escaping
entity_escaped
The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded
Using_Sitemapindexiles
Qther_Sitemap formats
The Sitemap must:
Sitemagilelocation
Begin with an opening <Urlset? tag and end with
closing < /urlset> tag
Validating YCL__Sitenap
Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the <urlset> tag_
Extendingthe_Sitemaps
Include
curl> entry for each URL;
parent XML tag:
Informing_search engine crawlers
Include
<loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag
All other tags are optional: Support for these optional tags may vary among search engines_
Refer t0 each search engine's
documentation for details.
Also,all URLs in
Sitemap must be from
single host such as
L
example.com
store examplecom: For further details, refer
Sitemap_ile_location
Sample XML Sitemap
The following example shows
Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags_
The optional tags are in italics.
<?xml
version="1
0" encoding-"UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http: / /WMl
sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0 . 9" >
<urm
<loczhttp: / /Wlw . example
com/</loc>
<lastmod?2005
01</lastmod>
<Changefreq monthly< /changefreq?
~pigitr
8</priority?
</url>
<rurlset>
Also see our example with MultipleURL::
XML tag definitions
The available XML tags are described below:
Attribute
Description
curlset>
required
Encapsulates the file and references the current protocol standard.
<url>
required
Parent tag for
URL entry: The remaining tags are children of this
<loc>
required
URL of the page. This URL must begin with the protocol (such as
and end with
trailing slash
your web server requires
This value
must be
ess than
048 characters-
ca
Lnon
Elotocol
each
hup)