Build your sitemap: Feature phone sitemaps

For feature phones (not smartphones), you can create a mobile sitemap by using the sitemap protocol along with an additional tag and namespace requirement. A sample mobile sitemap that contains a single entry is shown below.
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
  xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0">
    
        http://mobile.example.com/article100.html
<mobile:mobile/> Please be aware of the following guidelines for making a mobile sitemap:
  • If you choose to use a sitemap generation tool, first check that it can create mobile sitemaps
  • A mobile sitemap must contain only URLs that serve feature phone web content. All other URLs are ignored by the Google crawling mechanisms so, if you have non-featurephone content, create a separate sitemap for those URLs.
  • Include the tag to make sure your mobile URLs are properly crawled.
  • URLs serving multiple markup languages can be listed in a single sitemap.
The Sitemaps page currently supports and automatically detects the following markup languages for mobile content: XHTML mobile profile (WAP 2.0), WML (WAP 1.2), cHTML (iMode).

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