Sitemap multilingual

  • Resolved arfufu

    (@arfufu)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi dear support,

    I just moved from Yoast because I had issues with canonical tags to TSF that fixed my issue so I’m very happy to discover your plugin!

    I have a little problem with the sitemap (that I didn’t have with Yoast). I’ve read a lot of your threads here, I understand it’s not critical to not use a sitemap (and that categories/tags don’t have to be in) but still I’m trying to make it work (sorry :D) My sitemap is only showing the first languages pages and posts…

    I’m using polylang and I setup the permalinks to use only the post slug, so the website I’m making doesn’t have subsirectory /fr nor language subdomains fr.mydomain.com. I just have mydomain.com/pageEN or mydomain.com/pageFR. So with this configuration I don’t have a secondary sitemap like mydomain.com/fr/sitemap.xml (or I didn’t find it?) and I guess all the posts / pages should show on the only sitemap?

    Thank you for your help,
    Kind regards

    P.S: if you have a look at the sitemap, you’ll see extra domains just because I use “Multiple Domain Mapping on single site” plugin but it shouldn’t have any impact, it’s just mapping domains for 2 of my pages.

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    If you append /sitemap.xml to the other language’s URLs, such as /fr/sitemap.xml, you’ll get the sitemap for that. It works for me–but you’re not the first to comment on its availability… perhaps there’s a caching issue? Try it on a different browser ??

    For more info, like where you should submit those to Google and Bing, please see our KB entry on that.

    For the archive-listings in the sitemap, please see our comments here (I still need to improve its readability… sorry!)

    Thread Starter arfufu

    (@arfufu)

    Hi Sybre ??

    No there is nothing on /fr/sitemap.xml … The website is not configured to have /fr/post but just /postinfr or /postinen so I don’t have subdirectory.
    I tried on 3 different browsers purging their caches.

    There must be something else?
    Thanks ??

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello again ??

    The root page still has the /fr/ appended, even when the translated-pages don’t.

    Annoyingly, and I now understand the issue: Polylang preserves the language settings in the browser (pll_language cookie), making debugging this a bit cumbersome–for example, after you click the flag in the menu, the other language’s sitemap will become inaccessible.

    Nevertheless, I can affirm that the /fr/sitemap.xml endpoint outputs the French sitemap :). Googlebot shouldn’t reuse cookies–so, I recommend submitting the sitemap URLs to Google Search Console, and they’ll confirm whether the sitemap is accessible or not. You can learn how to do that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451001.

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter arfufu

    (@arfufu)

    Hi!

    Yeah indeed you’re right, the sitemap is accessible at /fr/sitemap.xml ONLY if I clicked before on the polylang french flag. And then the english sitemap is not accessible.

    So I submitted the 2 sitemaps to GSE, for now it says they couldn’t fetch the french one, I’ll give it some time to see…

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Thanks for confirming that’s the case! If Google still reports an issue with the sitemap after a week, let me know!

    Thread Starter arfufu

    (@arfufu)

    Hi Sybre,

    As promised I give you an update after 1 week.
    I still got a 404 error when i want to see the sitemap of the language not selected in polylang, as you said.
    But unfortunately in GSE the second language sitemap is still not recognized after 1 week…

    Last time read 17/06/2020
    Sitemap can be read but contains errors. Sitemap is an HTML file.

    Would you plan any update about that?
    Thank you ??

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    I just escalated this bug to an issue, so I won’t accidentally backlog it again ??
    https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/532

    Cheers!

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