How can I edit my sitemap?

In this article, you'll learn how Weglot handles SEO regarding the sitemap and the hreflang tags.

With Weglot, you don't need to update your sitemap:

When it comes to multilingual SEO, Google gives 3 key guidelines to make sure translated pages are well-indexed:

- have unique and dedicated URLs for each language, which Weglot auto provides and creates with subdirectories or subdomains (depending on your integration) - warn Google about the existence of other versions of the page, using either:

• a sitemap
• or the hreflang tags in the source code

Weglot automatically adds the hreflang tags to your website source, so editing your sitemap would be redundant.

Here's an example with subdirectories:

If you want a multilingual sitemap anyway, Weglot manages to do it for you.

However, this feature is only available if you are under the subdirectory integration.

⚠️ It is not available for WordPress projects.

Instead of the subdomain integration, subdirectories manage your full path URLs and allow Weglot to have a larger panel of possibilities. Multilingual sitemaps are one of them.

As subdirectories integration is still in beta, please contact support@weglot.com to know the process to follow to be part of it.

Subdirectories are available for all plans and technologies.

Once done, we'll add a special option to inform Weglot that you want a multilingual sitemap.

All your translated URLs will be added to the sitemap.xml files and grouped by language.

To access a group, you have to follow the related URL. Here is an example of the English sitemap