I’m using the “Site Mapper” action (version 1.5.3) to produce a sitemap for a bilingual website.
Both versions of each webpage are located within the same folder, e.g.
./Site
→ index_de.html
→ index_en.html
While this is working well, I wonder if there is a way to separate the site maps into two different ones, one per language.
I understand that with the “Site Mapper Settings” action, I can exclude a page from the sitemap, but the problem is that just one sitemap is created overall. And therefore, I had to decide which language to use.
The background of my question is that Google seems not to index all pages. From around 100, it includes just 50. While I cannot see which are read and which not, it appears that Google likes only one language per site. So I wanted to separate them.
Have you considered making a separate folder for each language? That might solve the issue in a way that Google understands. It is common for a single site to have either two folders or even two subdomains if there are two languages. You could use htaccess rules to redirect permanently any links that linger in the Web’s memory of your site.
Walter
On Apr 6, 2014, at 8:05 AM, tobiaseichner wrote:
Hello,
I’m using the “Site Mapper” action (version 1.5.3) to produce a sitemap for a bilingual website.
Both versions of each webpage are located within the same folder, e.g.
./Site
→ index_de.html
→ index_en.html
While this is working well, I wonder if there is a way to separate the site maps into two different ones, one per language.
I understand that with the “Site Mapper Settings” action, I can exclude a page from the sitemap, but the problem is that just one sitemap is created overall. And therefore, I had to decide which language to use.
The background of my question is that Google seems not to index all pages. From around 100, it includes just 50. While I cannot see which are read and which not, it appears that Google likes only one language per site. So I wanted to separate them.
