Submitting mobile Sitemaps

8/31/2005 05:17:00 PM

Posted by Vanessa Fox

If you've created and submitted Sitemaps for your non-mobile pages, or just want to submit a mobile Sitemap for the first time, here are a few helpful tips to help you get started:

Identify your mobile Sitemaps content

• If you have content other than XHTML mobile profile, WML, and cHTML, you should create a separate non-mobile Sitemap for those and submit it using the Add a Sitemap page.


• If your site serves multiple mobile markup languages, you should create a separate mobile Sitemap for each markup language.


• If you have URLs that serve multiple markup languages, you should include those URLs in each mobile Sitemap that applies. For instance, if you have a URL that serves both XHTML and WML content, include that URL in two mobile Sitemaps, one for each markup language.


• If you have a large site and use Sitemap index files to manage a large number of mobile Sitemaps, make sure that each Sitemap index file only includes mobile Sitemaps for one markup language.

Create your mobile Sitemaps

• You can create mobile Sitemaps in the same way as other Sitemaps. The only format not supported is OAI-PMH.


• If you are submitting a syndication feed, and the URLs listed in that feed serve multiple markup languages, decide which markup language fits best. You can’t submit the syndication feed multiple times, each for a different markup language, since each Sitemap (within the same directory) must have a unique name.
  

Submit your mobile Sitemaps

• Once you’ve created your Sitemap, log in to your Google Account and submit it using the Add a Mobile Sitemap page.


• Specify the markup language that the URLs listed in the mobile Sitemap serve.


• Once you’ve submitted the mobile Sitemap it will be listed on your My Sitemaps page as a “Mobile” type.