: Google sitemap HrefLang tag without the main site url We have websites with multilingual content. e.g. http://www.example.com/about-us/ http://www.example.com/en-HK/about-us/ http://www.example.com/en-GB/about-us/

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We have websites with multilingual content.

e.g.

www.example.com/about-us/ www.example.com/en-HK/about-us/ www.example.com/en-GB/about-us/ www.example.com/zn-CH/about-us/

We need to configure the hreflang tags in sitemap for Google to know that there are alternate links for the same pages in different languages.

I know for the above example that my sitemap URL tag would look like this:

<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/about-us</loc>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="http://www.example.com/en-GB/about-us"/>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-HK" href="http://www.example.com/en-HK/about-us"/>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="zn-CH" href="http://www.example.com/zn-CH/about-us"/>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>


However, if I don't have the main URL but just the last three ones with en-HK, en-GB and zn-CH, then how should my URL tag look? Should I just skip the loc tag and keep the three xhtml:link tags? Or can I specify any URL in the loc tag and put the remaining two in xhtml:link tags?

I am new to Google sitemaps. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rashmi

Edit:
From the answer posted on stackoverflow.com/questions/18423624/sitemap-for-domain-with-multilanguage-site/18423803#18423803, for my example with sites in en-HK, en-GB and zn-CH, should there be three URL tags, with each of them assigned to loc with the other two in xhtml:link?

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