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Google news sitemap extension

Publication name, language and publication date for news articles in a sitemap.

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

News sitemaps are expected to contain only recent articles — the guidance is the last two days — which makes them the one sitemap type where a stale file is worse than no file.

The extension adds <news:news> inside each <url>, carrying the publication and its <news:publication_date>.

URI
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9
Prefix
news
Elements
newspublicationnamelanguagepublication_datetitle

Specification: Google news sitemaps

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