Sitemap for multilanguage website

[AymanH]

Hello sorry silly question but prefer to be sure

I have an international website with different subfolders

• .com/es
• .com
• .com/fr
• etc

All of them have independant sitemap,  but i'd like to add in .com/robot.txt a sitemap with language.

Do you know how I can do this ?

Tks a lot !

[AymanH]

Tks u !

[JaneCopland]

Hi there,

Ah, I see what you mean.

You can certainly add these sitemap links to the .com's robots.txt file. I don't believe there is syntax to specify language for this though - if you look at large multinational sites like Adobe.com, you can see their multitude of sitemaps below their disallowed files: http://www.adobe.com/robots.txt

Microsoft's is similar: http://www.microsoft.com/robots.txt

I'd say you're safe enough to link like this - the sitemap will be accessed, plus if you have used hreflang tags and geo-targeted the subfolders in Webmaster Tools, Google will understand that it's looking at maps / content for a specific language.

Cheers,

Jane

[AymanH]

Hello

Sorry did not explain properly

In a robot.txt we can add a link to the sitemap and specify the language of each sitemap. Was just wondering if someones knows the syntaxe to use.

[JaneCopland]

Hi there,

Sorry, I'm a little lost - what is it that you're preparing to do ("add in .com/robot.txt a sitemap with language")? Would you be able to rephrase? I'm not quite sure what you mean by this.

Cheers,

Jane

[AymanH]

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