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Paul Marden 235 posts 338 karma points MVP 2x c-trib

Feb 13, 2020 @ 10:28

Multilingual XML Sitemap output's # for non-mandatory unpublished variants

Our configuration is U8, with multilingual variants. We have:

/ (main variant en-GB)
/nl (nl-NL Optional variant)
/us (en-US optional variant)

Because nl and us are optional variants, a page can be published on the main GB variant, and not published on the multi-lingual variants.

However, the XML Sitemap for both multi-linguagal sites

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://mydomain.com:443/</loc>;
    <lastmod>2020-02-12T21:29:58+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://mydomain.com:443/us/products/</loc>;
    <lastmod>2020-02-13T09:59:54+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://mydomain.com:443/us/products/email-security/</loc>;
    <lastmod>2020-02-10T17:03:20+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://mydomain.com:443/#</loc>;
    <lastmod>2020-02-12T17:08:53+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://mydomain.com:443/#</loc>;
    <lastmod>2020-02-12T19:10:53+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://mydomain.com:443/#</loc>;
    <lastmod>2020-02-12T16:11:24+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://mydomain.com:443/#</loc>;
    <lastmod>2020-02-11T17:36:58+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>

All the rows with a # correspond to a page which is published on the main variant but not on the US site. i.e. I only have two pages published on the US site at the moment

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Richard Soeteman 4049 posts 12922 karma points MVP 2x

Feb 14, 2020 @ 07:48

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Hi Paul,

This will be addressed in the 2.10 release. XML Sitemaps and Multi lingual have a few small issues at the moment indeed.

Best,

Richard

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Simon Brunemark 7 posts 86 karma points

May 20, 2020 @ 07:52

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Hi Richard

When will the 2.10 version be released?

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Richard Soeteman 4049 posts 12922 karma points MVP 2x

May 20, 2020 @ 07:54

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Sorry for the delay Simon, Hopefully soon. Covid, teaching kids working from home all sub optimal to make any progress on anything.

Again sorry for the delay

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Simon Brunemark 7 posts 86 karma points

Oct 05, 2020 @ 08:11

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Hi Richard

I hope you get through these corona days well.

Any news concerning this 2.1 version?

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Richard Soeteman 4049 posts 12922 karma points MVP 2x

Oct 06, 2020 @ 09:55

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Hi Simon,

I've just updated to 2.9.5 that fixes this issue. Sorry for the delay and hope this helps.

Best,

Richard

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Simon Brunemark 7 posts 86 karma points

Oct 08, 2020 @ 07:57

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Hi Richard

Thanks - I will take a look at it.

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Daljit Kaur 16 posts 87 karma points

Nov 19, 2020 @ 12:31

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Hi Richard, I just installed seo checker on my local to get the understanding of how it works. So far it seems like a very nice and easy to use package.

But i have a query regarding sitemap. Since we exclude the doc types from the sitemap, the sitemap.xml should contain all urls(multilingual ) for the doctypes i have chosen to include.

Am i correct so far ? When i preview the sitemap.xml, it only shows the sitemap of default language.

Am i missing something ? Kindly help.

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Richard Soeteman 4049 posts 12922 karma points MVP 2x

Nov 20, 2020 @ 08:06

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Hi,

This will be fixed in 2.10. RC version can already be downloaded here

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7e5dp4zwdgnm02z/seo-checker210_0.zip?dl=0

Hope this helps,

Richard

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Daljit Kaur 16 posts 87 karma points

Nov 23, 2020 @ 07:20

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Thank you. I will try this.

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Daljit Kaur 16 posts 87 karma points

Nov 25, 2020 @ 11:26

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Hi Richard, I did replace the files but i am still getting the sitemap for just default language. Do i change the settings from somewhere or is there a step i am missing ?

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Richard Soeteman 4049 posts 12922 karma points MVP 2x

Nov 25, 2020 @ 12:08

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Multi lingual -> You can specify sitemapindex.xml and it will give you all the sitemap nodes

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Daljit Kaur 16 posts 87 karma points

Nov 25, 2020 @ 13:04

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It did.Thanks for that. But fr my other language variant my url is /sv-se/. the root node is displaying correct in /sv-se/sitemap.xml. But rest of them are all showing up the default nodes, i.e. the nodes of /sitemap.xml.

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Richard Soeteman 4049 posts 12922 karma points MVP 2x

Nov 25, 2020 @ 13:09

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Hi,

If you use the RC and you use sitemapindex.xml not sitemap.xml you should see an index file with language xml files. In image below first english second is german

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Daljit Kaur 16 posts 87 karma points

Nov 25, 2020 @ 13:26

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yes i got the index file. But in the individual sitemap.xml files, i am not getting correct nodes for the swedish language.

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Daljit Kaur 16 posts 87 karma points

Nov 25, 2020 @ 13:27

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the screenshot i showed above of swedish sitemap, the url's are not correct after the root node.

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