News Sitemaps have special requirements:
Do not add more than 1000 new entries to an existing sitemap at one time.
Update existing sitemap for article updates.
You can also use XML sitemaps to define and instruct Google on certain meta tags. One example is hreflang; you can add that as an extension to your sitemap.
According to John Mueller, Google ignores the priority nepal mobile database attribute in XML sitemaps , but does pay attention to lastmod. Google may prioritize your pages themselves based on popularity and authority, but Lastmod is a tag that indicates when the URL last changed, which is very interesting to Google. Also, according to John Mueller, you don’t need to add an XML sitemap for AMP URLs.
XML Sitemap Best and Worst Practices
At Atlassian, we solved the lack of XLM sitemap functionality in our CMS with a 3rd party XML sitemap provider, and it works pretty well.
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It works even if the format is text-based instead of XML.