Multilingual Site Map joomla

Question

I have a multilingual Joomla 3.6.5.

My question is how can I create a sitemap for the installed languages?

I know that extensions exist for doing that, but if you don't want to use it how is this possible?

If I remember correct since J1.7 there's not a subfolder for each language, so how do you provide the correct sitemap for the languages you have in Google for example?

Thanks in advance.

EDITED I realise that my first question wasn't clear enough.I'll Try to make it more specific.I had a JSite in old version 1.5, i create a new one in J3.6.5. In Google Webmaster Tools they were set up like

1) thedomain.com as the default language and 2) thedomain.com/en as the alternate for the english language which it was in subfolder named en

Of course they had their own sitemap. Now in J3.6 which is multilingual i have to set up the new site maps. For the default language it's OK. I put it in the root on my server and it's working.

But for the english version there isn't an en subfolder, so how do i declare the sitemap for that version? GWT wants the sitemap for that version to be in http://thedomain.com/en Do i have to configure somehow the GWT domain for that version or do i have to do something else? That's my problem actually.

Answer 1

If you need dynamic sitemap creation from inside your Joomla, then you need an extension or to develop something on your own, that will scan/crawl your site to discover urls and then generate the sitemap.xml. It will need also to be triggered and updated when you create new content/pages.

• JED: Sitemaps

There are also other 3rd party SEO services that provide sitemap generators, or other stand-alone online sitemap generators etc. Just google about it e.g.:

• G:Search: xml sitemaps online

Finally, if you don't update your content very often, you can always create a sitemap.xml file by hand:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> 
    <url> 
        <loc>http://www.example.com/page1</loc>
        <lastmod>2016-01-18</lastmod>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    </url> 
    <url> 
        <loc>http://www.example.com/page2</loc>
        <lastmod>2016-01-18</lastmod>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    </url>
    <url> 
        <loc>http://www.example.com/fr/page1</loc>
        <lastmod>2016-01-18</lastmod>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    </url>
    <url> 
        <loc>http://www.example.com/fr/page2</loc>
        <lastmod>2016-01-18</lastmod>
        <priority>0.5</priority>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    </url>
</urlset>