XML sitemap
An XML file listing URLs a site wants crawled, optionally with lastmod dates, used as a discovery aid by Google, Bing and other engines.
Crawling IndexingNews sitemap
Google News sitemap
A specialised sitemap containing only articles published in the last two days, using the news namespace to speed discovery for Google News and Top stories.
In full
News sitemaps use the `<news:news>` extension with publication name, language and publication date. Google requires that URLs be removed once they are older than two days, though they remain indexed normally. The format is a discovery accelerator, not a ranking factor, and is only relevant to sites accepted into Google News surfaces.
Example
A regional newspaper regenerates `/news-sitemap.xml` every five minutes with the 300 most recent stories.
Related terms
Top stories
A carousel of recent news articles on the SERP, drawn from sites Google's news systems consider eligible, weighted heavily toward…
Freshness systems (QDF)
Google's systems that boost recent content for queries where recency matters, such as breaking news, sports scores or evolving topics.
Sitemap index file
An XML file that lists other sitemap files, letting a site exceed the 50,000-URL per-file limit and organise sitemaps by section.
IndexNow
An open protocol for pushing URL change notifications to participating search engines, adopted by Microsoft Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver.
Where to read more
- Create a News Sitemap · Documentation · developers.google.com