Title: wp- multisite XML Sitemaps
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# wp- multisite XML Sitemaps

 *  [Irene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlinaite/)
 * (@arlinaite)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-xml-sitemaps/)
 * I have a multisite for only one site. I am using rankmath for the XML sitemap.
   However, there isn’t an index sitemap that indicates that the subsites belong
   to the main URL.
 * Is there a plugin for multisite for the XML sitemap?

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-xml-sitemaps/#post-16739807)
 * I don’t think you’ll find anything like it. Each domain is considered by Google
   as its own domain. A SitemapXML should only contain pages of the domain it is
   called from – otherwise it would cause an error and not lead to indexing.
 * Here is also an answer at Google about this:
   [https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/132990940/submitting-a-sitemap-for-a-multi-domain-website-with-the-same-urls?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/132990940/submitting-a-sitemap-for-a-multi-domain-website-with-the-same-urls?hl=en)
 *  Thread Starter [Irene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlinaite/)
 * (@arlinaite)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-xml-sitemaps/#post-16786881)
 * Thanks for your answer.
 * Sorry for the delay. in my site, the subdomains are subfolders.
    - example.com/
    - example.com/es/ spanish version
    - example.com/en/ english version
    - example.com/ba/ spanish version
    - example.com/ar/ spanish version
 * example. com and example.com/ar/ spanish version are the same main site, this
   is how multisite is.
 * In Google Search Console I can find the pages of the subsites in the main URL
 * Maybe it’s not a must to have a sitemap index, that include all the subsites 
   URL’s but I thought that the structure of the site should be more clear.
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-xml-sitemaps/#post-16787308)
 * You can enter the sitemap.xml’s of each subsite individually in Google Search
   Console. Then Google will also get to know about it. It is not necessary to add
   an entire index to your site.
 *  Thread Starter [Irene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlinaite/)
 * (@arlinaite)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-xml-sitemaps/#post-16787394)
 * > You can enter the sitemap.xml’s of each subsite individually in Google Search
   > Console. 
 * Sorry, I didn’t mention it before. This is precisely how it is now that’s why
   I was asking about an index sitemap that indicates that the subsites belong to
   the main URL.
 * The subdirectory sites can also be different websites, and I wouldn’t be so sure
   that GSC understands that.
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-xml-sitemaps/#post-16787410)
 * Plugins like Yoast create one sitemap per post type. There is then also a central
   index (related to the individual website). The Search Console also uses this 
   and recognizes the files linked in it. This is part of the SitemapXML standard,
   which you can also read about here: [https://www.sitemaps.org/index.html](https://www.sitemaps.org/index.html).
   
   Theoretically, you can store any number of sitemaps in the GSC. I know this from
   other store systems that sometimes create multiple sitemaps (for pages, for products,
   for variants …) and have no common index for them.
 * In your case you have a multisite. I don’t know any multisite plugin which could
   span over this one sitemap as a total index. The biggest problem I see is the
   addressing of the index. Where should it be accessible? In the main page? What
   would be a main page of such a network from Google’s point of view? Couldn’t 
   you tell the bot concretely. Multisites are often strictly separated pages.
 * Perhaps it would be easier for you to create the different languages not as a
   multisite but within a page. Most multilingual plugins do this without any problems(
   WPML, Polylang).
 *  Thread Starter [Irene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlinaite/)
 * (@arlinaite)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-multisite-xml-sitemaps/#post-16789168)
 * I have RankMath, the point is that the index sitemap of the main site example.
   com stores the sitemap of example.com/ar/. This is how the main site is structured
   by Multisite.
 * The Multisite works well and serves its purpose, which is not the translation
   only.

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