sitemap for domain with multilanguage site

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michele picture michele · Aug 25, 2013 · Viewed 7k times · Source

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

mysite.it/it => italian language
mysite.it/en => english language

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

Answer

jnelson picture jnelson · Aug 25, 2013

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

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