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Feel free to use this online tool to validate the XML structure of your Google SiteMap. You don't know what a Google SiteMap is? Read our tutorial How to make use of Google SiteMaps. You don't have a Google SiteMap yet? Here you go for free tools to create a Google SiteMap XML file of your web site. Or install our smart sitemaps tool, it's free of charge and generates XML, RSS and HTML site maps. Enter the URL of your Google SiteMap XML file to validate your XML and/or submit your sitemap to Google. In order to validate the XML structure of a Google sitemap.xml file, you must replace your <urlset> tag by <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd"> If you want to submit your XML sitemap to Yahoo and Microsoft as well, use this <urlset> tag: <urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> (Google accepts both versions) <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/siteindex.xsd"> And this is the <sitemapindex> tag for use with all search engines supporting the sitemaps protocol: <sitemapindex xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> By the way, this is a beta version, provided AS IS with no explicit or implied guarantees. Please report bugs via the contact link on the left. To learn more about Google Sitemaps, how search engines index and rank Web sites, search engine marketing, and for general information on search engine friendly Web site development please read our articles. If you're keen on XML, RSS and HTML site maps, download Simple Sitemaps for free. |
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