Wordpress multilanguage sitemaps

[vladokan]

Hi, I have a multilingual wordpress site. which is in Bulgarian and English - translated using qtranslate.

The xml sitemap of the 2 languages is in one sitemap file- all the links for the Bulgarian and English version are in one file. (Our web is using this plugin -

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-v3-for-qtranslate

Do you have any idea how can I make separate xml sitemap for every language? I ask you here because may be you have identical problems with your multilanguage wordpress website.

You can see the sitemap with 2 languages links in one sitemap here:

http://cholakovit.com/ sitemap.xml  Cholakov IT

I have read from this article that it is better practise and also it will help with geo-targetazing your web site:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/multiple-xml-sitemaps-increased-indexation-and-traffic

[vladokan]

Hi, thanks for the idea. Actually manually of course can be done, but if there is automatic update solution would be much easier, expecially if there are many projects.

[GuestBlogPoster.com]

There may be a better answer than this, but I what I'm thinking would probably work.

You can have as many sitemaps as you want, just use different filenames (e.g. /sitemap-en.xml and /sitemap-bg.xml). You might need to manually build them though.

Link to them from your robots.txt files and just submit the individual sitemaps in your Google Webmaster Tools. Repeat everytime you want Google to know about new files (if Google doesn't already).

I hope this helps!

Kevin Phelps
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwphelps