Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Webmaster Level: AllHave you ever wanted to submit your various content types (video, images, etc.) in one Sitemap? Now you can! If your site contains videos, images, mobile URLs, code or geo information, you can now create—and submit—a Sitemap with all the information.
Site owners have been leveraging Sitemaps to let Google know about their sites’ content since Sitemaps were first introduced in 2005. Since that time additional specialized Sitemap formats have been introduced to better accommodate video, images, mobile, code or geographic content. With the increasing number of specialized formats, we’d like to make it easier for you by supporting Sitemaps that can include multiple content types in the same file.
The structure of a Sitemap with multiple content types is similar to a standard Sitemap, with the additional ability to contain URLs referencing different content types. Here's an example of a Sitemap that contains a reference to a standard web page for Web search, image content for Image search and a video reference to be included in Video search:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1"> <url> <loc>http://example.com/foo.html</loc> <image:image> <image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc> </image:image> <video:video> <video:content_loc>http://example.com/videoABC.flv</video:content_loc> <video:title>Grilling tofu for summer</video:title> </video:video> </url> </urlset>
Here's an example of what you'll see in Webmaster Tools when a Sitemap containing multiple content types is submitted:
We hope the capability to include multiple content types in one Sitemap simplifies your Sitemap submission. The rest of the Sitemap rules, like 50,000 max URLs in one file and the 10MB uncompressed file size limit, still apply. If you have questions or other feedback, please visit the Webmaster Help Forum.
45 comments:
That sounds really good, didn't know we could do direct image sitemap submissions. Where is there data on doing geo sitemap submissions?
How would you add the geo information to this all-in-one? It's got a different schema & layout.
Yes its another useful features add by Google.
In the example, you're declaring the default namespace three times. Don't you mean xmlns, xmlns:image and xmlns:video (in this order)?
Anyway, great news!
I am a beginner in SEO industry I need help where to start get usefull information to keep me up to date.how can I start using this Sitemap here is my first website Green IT Web
In sitemaps priority is important or not.
Great news. We can still use the old fashioned way of having different sitemap types in the same way right?
Arthur
It would be cool however, if Google can provide a tool that automatically does this - specially on the blogger platform.
As webmasters, there are more and more things that we have to do now aside from creating the site itself and the content.
It seems as we progress in technology, that we are getting more and more burdened with additional tasks.
Good to see this happening! I was wondering if you'd consider to update the list at [1] with the sitemap extension we've developed for semantic markup (microformats, RDFa, etc.), see [2].
If you have any question, please feel free to contact me.
Cheers,
Michael Hausenblas
(Sindice Data Acquisition)
[1] http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=20986
[2] http://sindice.com/developers/publishing
Good you posted it now :D
I was going to write a tutorial (with video) how to create video sitemaps (for external sites like vimeo and blip.tv too).
Now I finally can combine both types of sitemaps in one file!
Do you guys know any good Plug In which can create video sitemaps or MRSS? Didn't find any...
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@Nigel, each and every sitemap has its own XSD, but all, including the Geo sitemaps uses the standard XML 'layout'. You supply the schema for the Geo reference the same way you'd supply a News schema
@Arthur, a standard web sitemap (sitemaps protocol) is the base of this new feature, so yes, you can continue using web sitemaps
Does this apply to news sitemaps or not. its not mentioned so its unclear
How do I make Site map for Blogspot. I need to give Site map for my blog http://risma2006.blogspot.com
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/
there are no image and video schemas
Vanessa Fox (a prominent ex-Google employee) has criticised Google for "going it alone" with these changes and not discussing it with fellow sitemaps.org members Yahoo! and Bing.
I entirely agree - the world wants standardised formats, not everyone doing their own thing. If Yahoo! and Bing really weren't involved, then frankly, shame on Google for behaving like that.
@Nazgut, specialized sitemaps such as News and Video sitemaps are extensions of the sitemaps protocol and their schema aren't bundled in the original web-sitemap schema. The specification and examples of these sitemap extensions can be found in the Webmaster Central Help Center
How can we create this type of sitemap? Do we need to create it manually? If yes, then what in case of big sites with 100's of videos and image..
Please suggest.
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1
gives a 404
Yes useful information for websites, but how about blogs is there any way or need to create a site map in BlogSpot? Dailywebarticles.com
Is there any different between XML in plain format (.xml) and compressed format (.xml.gz) ?
That's Great!
Romul zanini hammer
That's something great ! It's like a cherry on the cake.....another set of useful features provided by Google....
Sounds really interesting. This really helps webmasters having different sections of website indexed without the sitemaps having any load problems.
Thats interesting but I have a question regarding sitemaps, hope someone here can answer here. I'm running a blog called Monsters Exposed, a site on real world monsters and mysterious paranormal events which is rich in multimedia content. How do I make sure that google indexes all of the relevant content?
This is a great new asset to getting valuable content indexed. QUESTION: Can a sitemap index be used to identify separate sitemaps containing, just certain content types (e.g. video sitemap, image sitemap, etc.)?
If so, is there a code example?
It'd be beneficial in managing all asset types into isolated sitemaps.
Very good improvement.It makes really helpful to SEO's rather using different type of sitemaps for each.
Brilliant addition! This will be incredibly useful. The specifications are detailed in the Google Webmasters Support Forum. Nice one :)
Thank you
Great to know, thanks
Ivan Cavric
how to upload sitemap file for blogger ?
what site map i will use for submitting on Google and other search engine...... ??
http://sarkarinaukriyaa.blogspot.com/
Thanks
Great news! Voila the Russian translation of this article:
Несколько типов данных в одной карте сайта
All right, it's good!
But how could I submit my all url, it is a large number.
How to create a sitemap for a site which is developed in Google like www.siteshelp.com ?
All talked about websites sitemap but Google Sites are also iportant and need ore SEO information and webmaster information which can helpful for Google Sites users.
i guess i can't submit xml sitemap if i were using blogspot because there are no other way to upload xml file to root directory. it is only possible using other hosting which allowed us to upload file to root directory. but I could be wrong.
Doesn't work - Google webmaster tools rejects this example.
Does anybody knows, who introduced the sitemap feature.
What about using this sitemap for wordpress?
is there a plugin version or does this have to be created manually?
Great news. We can still use the old fashioned way of having different sitemap types in the same way right?
Arthur
for blogspot, log in to webmaster tools, and type atom.xml on sitemap field and submit.
Your example here looks a bit questionable. You give the URL of a page as:
www.example.com/page
whereas in the URL of the image the prefix (subdomain) is lacking:
example.com/image
Not that I'd think that wouldn't work, yet I'd prefer to have this example completely clean from any ambiguity.
-luzie-
Top Contributor Google Webmaster Help
Thanks, Luzie! I added the "www" to the URL to make it consistent.
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