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Sitemap format (XML)
The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
The Sitemap must:
- Begin with an opening
<urlset>tag and end with a closing</urlset>tag. - Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the
<urlset>tag. - Include a
<url>entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag. - Include a
<loc>child entry for each<url>parent tag.
All other tags are optional. Support for these optional tags may vary among search engines. Refer to each search engine's documentation for details.
Sample XML Sitemap
The following example shows a Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags. The optional tags are in italics.
XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> | |
<url> | |
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc> | |
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod> | |
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq> | |
<priority>0.8</priority> | |
</url> | |
</urlset> |
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