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This document describes the XML schema for the Sitemap protocol:
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The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags_
AIl data values in
Sitemap must be entity_escaped
The file itself must be UTF-8
Entity
escaping
encoded:
Using_Sitemapindexiles
Qther_Sitemap formats
The Sitemap must:
Sitemapile
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:
Iforming_search_engine_crawers
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 wwexample.com or store example com: For further details. refer the
Sitemapile_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
encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http: / /WM
sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0. 9" >
<uri>
<loczhttp: / /Wlw . example
com/</loc>
<lastmod?2005
01</lastmod>
location
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