XML sitemaps questions

[CommT]

Hi All,

My developer has asked me some questions that I do not know the answer to. We have both searched for an answer but can't find one.... So, I was hoping that the clever folk on Moz can help!!!

Here is couple questions that would be nice to clarify on.

What is the actual address/name of file for news xml.

Can xml site maps be generated on request?

Consider following scenario: spider requests http://mypage.com/sitemap.xml which permanently redirects to extensionless MVC 4 page http://mypage.com/sitemapxml/ . This page generates xml.

Thank you,

Amelia

[wissamdandan]

google recommends to have a .xml file extension ...

They provide another recommendation where if you have just html urls you can include them in a .txt file and thats it

ref: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en#2

please go to here https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/74288?hl=en for other requirements for G News Sitemap

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Google is not really a big fan of redirects to find your sitemaps, but of course you can generate them on request instead of hosting them publicly. So if you directly would submit: mypage.com/sitemapxml/ then Google would have no problem with doing this.