Submitting mobile Sitemaps

August 31, 2005

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.

Posted by Vanessa Fox