Sitemap for multilanguage website
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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 !
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Tks u !
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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
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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.
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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
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