Sitemap for domain with multilanguage site [closed]

Question

I have www.example.it that support 2 language:

example.it/it => Italian language
example.it/en => English language

How can I set up the correct sitemap for the 2 version?

Equality

railshorde.com/blog/… – Hicks

I voted to close this question because it is not a programming question and it is off-topic on Stack Overflow. Non-programming questions about your website should be asked on Webmasters. In the future, please ask questions like this there. – Totipalmate

Answer 1

Google have specifically answered this here:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/multilingual-and-multinational-site.html

For example:

<url>
  <loc>http://mysite.it/it</loc>
  <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://mysite.it/en" />
  <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="http://mysite.it/it" />
</url>

You will need to know the language or country code in order to be able to categorize other language types

http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/bllanguagecodes.htm

Bandylegged

jnelson, as per the GWT link, should there be two url tags for the above e.g. one with <loc>mysite.it/it</loc> and the other with <loc>mysite.it/en</loc> or just one is enough? – Emmy

It looks that way, although it's not clear without the example. From Google Support: You must create a separate url element for each URL. Each url element must include a loc tag indicating the page URLs, and an xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="XX" subelement for every alternate version of the page, including itself. – Pauli