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Sitemaps Example

Sitemaps are constructed using XML. This is not the same as HTML. XML is designed to handle data for Web site whereas HTML is for display dynamic content.

Here’s an example of how Google XML Sitemaps look like:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”gss.xsl”?>
<urlset xmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″
xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
xsi:schemaLocation=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd”>
<url><loc>http://wassup.myblog.sg/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-03-13T06:10:39+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>1.00</priority></url>
<url><loc>http://wassup.myblog.sg/post-1/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-03-13T06:10:47+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.50</priority></url>
<url><loc>http://wassup.myblog.sg/post-2/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-03-13T06:10:48+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.50</priority></url>
</urlset>