What are different types of XML Sitemaps for Google?

Xml sitemap is a collection of URLs present in a website. These URLs can be the list of pages, list of images, or list of videos in a website. The Xml sitemap also contains other information like last modification date, frequency to crawl the page for changes and priority of a page in the website.

The aim of the sitemap is to inform search engines about the list of such URLs so that it can find all URLs present on the website without crawling. Without a sitemap, web crawlers can only find all pages in a website by crawling the website and crawling each page in a website takes time.

Over all, there are 4 types of sitemaps:

       XML Sitemap for Page / Post
       XML Sitemap for Image(s)
       XML Sitemap for Video(s)
       XML Sitemap for New(s)

We are offering only two types of sitemap generators:  Xml sitemap generator and Image sitemap generator for Google with unlimited pages which follow Sitemap standards protocols.

Many free online tools are available to generate Sitemaps, but only few offers sitemap creation for unlimited pages.

Format for Xml sitemap:

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

   <url>

      <loc>http://www.clegent.com/</loc>

      <lastmod>2014-01-14</lastmod>

      <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

      <priority>0.9</priority>

   </url>

</urlset>

Format of image sitemap:

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"

  xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">

 <url>

   <loc>http://www.clegent.com/</loc>

        <image:image>

               <image:loc>

                       http://www.clegent.com/web/images/clegent-logo.PNG

               </image:loc>

               <image:caption>

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               </image:caption>

               <image:title>

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               </image:title>

        </image:image>

 </url> 

</urlset> 

Format of Video sitemap:

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"

        xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1"> 

   <url> 

     <loc>http://www.clegent.com/</loc>

     <video:video>

       <video:thumbnail_loc>http://www. clegent.com/ web/images/clegent-logo.PNG</video:thumbnail_loc> 

       <video:title> generate image xml sitemap, create google image sitemap </video:title>

       <video:description> generate image xml sitemap, create google image sitemap </video:description>

       <video:content_loc>http://www. clegent.com/sitemap-video.flv</video:content_loc>

       <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=1">

         http://www. clegent.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123</video:player_loc>

       <video:duration>300</video:duration>

       <video:expiration_date>2014-01-14T11:10:10+02:00</video:expiration_date>

       <video:rating>3.1</video:rating> 

       <video:view_count>65654</video:view_count>    

       <video:publication_date>2014-01-14T12:10:20+03:00</video:publication_date>

       <video:family_friendly>yes</video:family_friendly>   

       <video:restriction relationship="allow">IE GB US CA</video:restriction> 

       <video:gallery_loc title="Sitemap Creation">http://www.clegent.com</video:gallery_loc>

       <video:price currency="INR">120</video:price>

       <video:requires_subscription>yes</video:requires_subscription>

       <video:uploader info="http://www.clegent.com/users/grillymcgrillerson">BirendraSingh

         </video:uploader>

       <video:live>no</video:live>

     </video:video> 

   </url> 

</urlset>

Format of News Sitemap:

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"

        xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">

  <url>

    <loc>http://www.clegent.com/image-sitemap-generator.do </loc>

    <news:news>

      <news:publication>

        <news:name>Image Sitemap Generator Online </news:name>

        <news:language>en</news:language>

      </news:publication>

      <news:access>Subscription</news:access>

      <news:genres>News, PressRelease</news:genres>

      <news:publication_date>2014-01-14</news:publication_date>

      <news:title> Image Sitemap Generator with unlimited pages </news:title>

      <news:keywords> Image Sitemap Generator</news:keywords>

    </news:news>

  </url>

</urlset>