Settings > Customize
Note: this feature is only available for upgraded PRO Sitemaps accounts
"Advanced" section includes additional settings for advanced configuration.
Images external domain:
If your website uses an external image hosting service or content delivery network (CDN), enter the domain name here to include these images in the sitemap.
Example:
http://cdn.yourdomain.com
Example:
http://cdn.yourdomain.com
Image sitemap inclusion mask:
Optionally, define "Image sitemap inclusion mask" to limit the images to be indexed in the image sitemap to specific folders or directories (separated with spaces).
Example:
images/large/ images/medium/
Example:
images/large/ images/medium/
RSS feed "age of page" limit:
Specify the age limit for pages to be included in the RSS feed. Pages older than the specified number of days will not be included ("0" means all pages are included).
RSS Inclusion mask:
You can also define a mask to limit the pages to specific sections of your website (separated with spaces). For example:
news/pages/ content/latest/
news/pages/ content/latest/
News Sitemap Title:
Specify a custom title for your News sitemap.
News Sitemap Inclusion mask:
Optionally, define "News Sitemap Inclusion mask" to limit the pages to be indexed in the News sitemap (separated with spaces).
Example:
news/ latest/
Example:
news/ latest/
Mobile pages inclusion mask:
Limit the pages to be indexed in the Mobile sitemap by specifying an inclusion mask (separated with spaces).
Example:
mobile/
Example:
mobile/
Include multi-language URLs for pages in sitemap
Enable this option to use hreflang tags (if present on your website) for including alternative language versions of your pages in the sitemap.
Alternatively, you can manually specify alternative language versions for your pages: enter your page URL followed by a list of language identifier with alternative URLs.
Example:
http://www.example.com/
de http://www.example.com/de/
es http://www.example.com/es/
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Alternatively, you can manually specify alternative language versions for your pages: enter your page URL followed by a list of language identifier with alternative URLs.
Example:
http://www.example.com/
de http://www.example.com/de/
es http://www.example.com/es/
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Custom Web sitemap filename:
This option might be useful if you want to differentiate multiple sitemaps submitted in the same webmaster account.
Enter only the base file name, without ".xml" extension (default is "sitemap").
Example:
my_sitemap
Will create sitemaps named: my_sitemap.xml, my_sitemap_images.xml, my_sitemap_video.xml etc.
Enter only the base file name, without ".xml" extension (default is "sitemap").
Example:
my_sitemap
Will create sitemaps named: my_sitemap.xml, my_sitemap_images.xml, my_sitemap_video.xml etc.
Website includes UTF8 non-english characters in URLs:
Please make sure that this option is enabled if your website uses UTF-8 charset in links (not in page content).
Ping search engines when new sitemap is created:
Send a notification to major search engines (like Google and Bing) when sitemap is updated
Ping additional sitemaps:
Use this option ONLY if you use "Host sitemap on your website's domain" option described on "Submit sitemap" page
Use separate subdomain to host sitemaps for this site:
Change the way sitemap is linked on sitemaphosting.com domain.
Default is:
http://a111.sitemaphosting.com/222/sitemap.xml
With this setting enabled it changes to:
http://a111-222.sitemaphosting.com/sitemap.xml
Default is:
http://a111.sitemaphosting.com/222/sitemap.xml
With this setting enabled it changes to:
http://a111-222.sitemaphosting.com/sitemap.xml
Remove "Created by.." links from sitemap:
Do not include a line in sitemap showing that it was created with PRO Sitemaps service