International XML Sitemaps - Standalone, or Integrate into Existing XML Sitemap?

[FPD_NYC]

Hi there,

We understand that hreflang tagging can be incorporated into an existing XML sitemap. That said, is there any inherent issue with having two sitemaps - your regular XML sitemap plus an international XML sitemap which lists off many of the same URLs as your original XML sitemap?

For example, one of our clients has an XML sitemap file they don't want to have to edit, but we want to implement international hreflang xml sitemaps for them. Can we add an "English" XML sitemap with the proper hreflang tagging even though this new sitemap contains many duplicates as the existing XML sitemap file?

Thank you!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi!

Potentially you can, but it probably would be better to implement it in your current sitemap structure. As it will give you a better flow of working with this.

Martijn.