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News Sitemap Generator

Build a Google News sitemap with the 48-hour rule applied.

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Exactly as registered in Google Publisher Center.

ISO 639, two or three letters. zh-cn and zh-tw are the exceptions.

Written as URL | Headline | date. Leave the date off and now is used.

News sitemap

Your generated code appears here.

Quick Tool Overview

The News Sitemap Generator builds a Google News sitemap with the news namespace, publication name, language and ISO 8601 publication dates. It applies the rules this format has and others do not: a 48-hour window on every article and a 1,000 URL cap, both enforced as you type rather than discovered in Search Console later.

What it does
Generates a Google News XML sitemap
You give it
Publication details and one article per line with its date
You get back
A valid news sitemap with out-of-window articles flagged
Best for
Publishers listed in Google Publisher Center
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About the News Sitemap Generator

List your articles with their publication dates and the generator writes the Google News sitemap, complete with the news namespace, the publication name and language, and the ISO 8601 dates the format demands.

A news sitemap follows rules no other sitemap does, and they are strict. It may only contain articles published in the last 48 hours — older entries must be removed, not left to age out. It is capped at 1,000 URLs rather than 50,000. Every article needs a publication date with a timezone, the publication name exactly as it is registered in Publisher Center, and the language as an ISO 639 code. The tool applies the 48-hour window as you build, greying out anything too old, because a news sitemap containing week-old articles is a common reason for a site to stop being crawled as frequently as it was.

Key features of the News Sitemap Generator

48-hour rule applied

Articles older than two days do not belong in a news sitemap, and they are flagged as you add them.

1,000 URL cap

The news limit is far lower than an ordinary sitemap's, and it is enforced.

Timezone-aware dates

Publication dates are written in full ISO 8601 with an offset, which the format requires.

Publication block

Name and language are written into every entry in the structure Google expects.

Built for automation

The page explains why this file has to be regenerated on a schedule rather than maintained by hand.

How to use the News Sitemap Generator

  1. 1

    Set your publication details

    The name exactly as registered in Google Publisher Center, plus the language code.

  2. 2

    List your articles

    One per line as "URL | Headline | 2026-03-14T09:00", newest first.

  3. 3

    Check the 48-hour window

    Anything older is flagged, because it must not be in a news sitemap at all.

  4. 4

    Copy and automate it

    Publish the XML, then generate it on a schedule — this file has to keep moving.

Frequently asked questions

Two days. Google will only read articles published in the last 48 hours, and entries older than that should be removed rather than left in. A news sitemap is a rolling window, not an archive, which is why it usually has to be generated automatically.

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