News Sitemaps: Creating a News SitemapWe encourage using the Sitemap protocol to create a News sitemap, because it allows webmasters to provide additional information about pages on their sites. In addition, a sitemap based on this protocol can be used by all the major search engines, as the protocol is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. When creating a News sitemap using the Sitemap protocol, please keep in mind: Namespace/URLset tag
List of URLs
Publication date
Optional news-specific tags Each URL may include the following tags within the News schema:
Example of a News sitemap containing a single article: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" Once you've assembled your news articles for a single publication label, upload them to the highest-level directory that contains them, then select Add Google News sitemaps. Google News can also accept sitemaps created in other formats. To learn more about creating Google sitemaps files, please visit our Webmaster Tools Help Center. You may also be interested in... |
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