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  • Anthony Candaele 1197 posts 2049 karma points
    Feb 20, 2013 @ 20:08
    Anthony Candaele
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    searchengine sitemap for multilingual website

    Hi,

    I need some advice on the usage of a searchengine sitemap for a multilingual website.

    My multilingual structure consists of two websites: an Israelic website and a Japanese website.

    The Israelic website has three language versions: Hebrew, English and Arabice

    The Japanes website has two language versions: Japanese and English.

    In the Umbraco Backoffice, this looks like this:

    I want to add a searchengine sitemap to my website. For this I use the excellent package Cultiv Search Engine Sitemap

    Now my question is this: Should I add a searchengine sitemap for every language version of the website, or does it suffice to only add one searchengine sitemap that list all of the content of all the language versions?

    Thanks for your advice
    Anthony

  • Simon steed 376 posts 688 karma points
    Feb 20, 2013 @ 20:29
    Simon steed
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    Lets try again - ipad post failed :(

    It depends upon wether you have multiple domains associated with each language or one domain with sub folders for the languages

    If multiple domains, i'd recommend one sitemap per domain, however if all under the same domain, one will suffice

    If you are targetting say the Japanese on it's own for their own search engines, it's wise to have that excluded from the main sitemap and have an individual one for that language

    hope that helps?

    Si

  • Anthony Candaele 1197 posts 2049 karma points
    Feb 20, 2013 @ 20:32
    Anthony Candaele
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    Hi Simon,

    Yes this helps :)

    For the Israelic website I use the domain: www.energypartner.co.il

    The Japanese website is a subdomain of the previous domain: www.jp.energypartner.co.il

    So I guess I can use one searchengine sitemap.

    Thanks,

    Anthony

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