Can you reference http and https in a sitemap.xml?
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I have a site where some pages (in Spanish) are https. The english pages are http. Can you tell me if it's okay to have both in the sitemap.xml?
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After reading some Google documentation I set it up like this:
<url><loc>http://www.mexpro.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2014-08-25T21:02:47+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
<xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
hreflang="es-mx"
href="https://www.mexpro.com/mx/"
/>
<xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
hreflang="en"
href="http://www.mexpro.com/"
/>
<xhtml:link <br="">rel="canonical"
href="http://www.mexpro.com/mexico/"
/></xhtml:link></xhtml:link></xhtml:link></url>Do I need rel="alternate" and rel="canonical" for the sitemap, or is it better to do a traditional sitemap for English and Spanish?Thank you.
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I think you can, I always would make it two different sitemaps though to also have the data for the specific languages.
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