Canonical Google Sitemap template
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Phil: Su, I took the liberty of adding support for Page Archives and correcting the CategoryArchiveLink tag (was just ArchiveLink). Increased version number to 0.8.
Su: My last working version(0.7) below. Will be checking shortly that it doesn't generate any errors via Google's webmaster tools(once it crawls the output again).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <MTIgnore> Canonical sitemap.xml template v0.8 ### START SETUP Possible values for the frequency variables are: always hourly daily weekly monthly yearly never "always" should be used to describe documents that change each time they are accessed. "never" should be used to describe archived URLs. </MTIgnore> <$MTSetVar name="home-frequency" value="daily"$> <$MTSetVar name="category-frequency" value="weekly"$> <$MTSetVar name="current-monthly-frequency" value="daily"$> <$MTSetVar name="past-monthly-frequency" value="never"$> <$MTSetVar name="current-weekly-frequency" value="daily"$> <$MTSetVar name="past-weekly-frequency" value="never"$> <$MTSetVar name="current-daily-frequency" value="hourly"$> <$MTSetVar name="past-daily-frequency" value="never"$> <$MTSetVar name="recent-entry-frequency" value="hourly"$> <$MTSetVar name="past-entry-frequency" value="monthly"$> <$MTSetVar name="page-frequency" value="weekly"$> <MTIgnore> Values for priority range from 0.0 to 1.0 and reflect the relative importance of pages within your site. Do not set these all to a high value, as that's no different from setting them all to 0.0. This does not affect how your pages are compared to other sites'. </MTIgnore> <$MTSetVar name="home-priority" value="1.0"$> <$MTSetVar name="category-priority" value="0.8"$> <$MTSetVar name="monthly-priority" value="0.6"$> <$MTSetVar name="weekly-priority" value="0.4"$> <$MTSetVar name="daily-priority" value="0.2"$> <$MTSetVar name="entry-priority" value="1.0"$> <$MTSetVar name="page-priority" value="1.0"$> <MTIgnore>### END SETUP</MTIgnore> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <url><MTIgnore>### This is your blog's homepage</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTBlogURL encode_xml="1"$></loc> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="home-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="home-priority"$></priority> </url> <MTIgnore>### START CATEGORY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled archive_type="Category"> <MTCategories> <url> <loc><$MTCategoryArchiveLink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="category-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="category-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTCategories> </MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled> <MTIgnore>### END CATEGORY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIgnore>### START MONTHLY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled archive_type="Monthly"> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly" lastn="1"> <url><MTIgnore> ### The current month is still being updated.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTArchiveLink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="current-monthly-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="monthly-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTArchiveList> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly" lastn="9999" offset="1"> <url><MTIgnore> ### Past months are just archived.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTArchiveLink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="past-monthly-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="monthly-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTArchiveList> </MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled> <MTIgnore>### END MONTHLY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIgnore>### START WEEKLY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled archive_type="Weekly"> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Weekly" lastn="1"> <url><MTIgnore> ### The current week is still being updated.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTArchiveLink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="current-weekly-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="weekly-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTArchiveList> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Weekly" lastn="9999" offset="1"> <url><MTIgnore> ### Past weeks are just archived.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTArchiveLink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="past-weekly-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="weekly-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTArchiveList> </MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled> <MTIgnore>### END WEEKLY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIgnore>### START DAILY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled archive_type="Daily"> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Daily" lastn="1"> <url><MTIgnore> ### The current day is still being updated.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTArchiveLink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="current-daily-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="daily-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTArchiveList> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Daily" lastn="9999" offset="1"> <url><MTIgnore> ### Past days are just archived.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTArchiveLink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></MTEntries></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="past-daily-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="daily-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTArchiveList> </MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled> <MTIgnore>### END DAILY ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIgnore>### START INDIVIDUAL ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled archive_type="Individual"> <MTEntries lastn="10"> <url><MTIgnore> ### The recent items you post are more likely to be active(comments, etc) than older ones.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="recent-entry-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="entry-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTEntries> <MTEntries lastn="999999" offset="10"> <url><MTIgnore> ### And the rest of them.</MTIgnore> <loc><$MTEntryPermalink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="past-entry-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="entry-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTEntries> </MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled> <MTIgnore>### END INDIVIDUAL ARCHIVES</MTIgnore> <MTIgnore>### START PAGE ARCHIVES ###</MTIgnore> <MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled archive_type="Page"> <MTPages> <url> <loc><$MTPagePermalink encode_xml="1"$></loc> <lastmod><$MTPageModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"$><$MTBlogTimezone$></lastmod> <changefreq><$MTGetVar name="page-frequency"$></changefreq> <priority><$MTGetVar name="page-priority"$></priority> </url> </MTPages> </MTIfArchiveTypeEnabled> <MTIgnore>### END PAGE ARCHIVES ###</MTIgnore> </urlset>