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This is displayed in the sitemap report in the “Status” column. The sitemaps have the status “Successful”. If your sitemap is incorrect, Search Console will show you this with the status “Sitemap contains errors”. If Google cannot retrieve your sitemap, you will see this under the status “Couldn’t be retrieved”. You can find a list of all possible error codes in Google Help if you scroll down. Here you will also receive suggested solutions. Check this report regularly to see whether your sitemaps are still error-free. Errors in the sitemap can lead to indexing problems and should therefore be corrected.
Ideally, you have had your sitemap created automatically and have thus reduced Special Data the risk of errors. Automatically update sitemap It is a good idea to inform Google as soon as there is new content on your website. then the sitemap will be automatically updated when changes are made. By now you will see why it makes sense not to create the sitemap by hand. Especially if new content is added frequently, a plugin relieves you of a lot of work so that you don't have to worry about updating it yourself. However, if you create your sitemap manually, you will have to update it with every change and this can quickly become confusing.

Sitemaps in multiple languages If you use several different languages on your website, you also have to tell Google about this. To do this, you create a markup in the sitemap. There are two other methods to include the hreflang attribute. Karo has summarized for you what these are and what you still need to know about different language versions in her article about hreflang . To set the language versions via the XML sitemap, an xhtml:link element is added to the loc element of each URL , in which the different languages are defined.
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