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Some time ago I used to run a forum host which allowed people to have their forum hosted on a subdomain.

This of course caused problems with regards to sitemaps as the sitemap had to be placed within the domain/subdomain that it was being used under. And Google treated subdomains as if they were different domain names.

Things have recently changed however. Google now supposedly treat subdomain as if it were a sub folder. Subfolders are perfectly legal within a sitemap (as long as the sitemap is housed in a lower directory).

This brings up the question. Does Google now allow multiple subdomains within the same sitemap?

I have tried a couple o tests by injecting an address for a subdomain with the sitemap of the parent domain. Google have in fact downloaded the sitemap and at the moment are not reporting any problems.

The question is does this mean it is allowed or not? Did Google report this as an error in the past or did they simply ignore the address in question?

If anyone know be sure to let me know. I will of course keep you updated on any outcomes that I get.

Tags: google, sitemap, subdomains

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