How can I test / validate my Googlenews sitemap?
If I go to the search console I have an option to add/test sitemap. However it saying I have an invalid XML tag:
Parent tag: publication Tag: keywords
But I can see this tag is valid so I think the validator is testing it as a normal sitemap not a googlenews specific one: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/74288?hl=en#submitsitemap
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
<url>
<loc>
http://www.website.com/page
</loc>
<news:news>
<news:publication>
<news:name>Sitename/news:name>
<news:language>en</news:language>
<news:keywords>Shopping</news:keywords>
</news:publication>
<news:title>Page title here</news:title>
<news:publication_date>2015-11-12T14:16:31+00:00</news:publication_date>
</news:news>
</url>
<url>
<loc>
http://www.website.com/other-page
</loc>
<news:news>
<news:publication>
<news:name>Sitename</news:name>
<news:language>en</news:language>
<news:keywords>Shopping</news:keywords>
</news:publication>
<news:title>
Page 2 title here
</news:title>
<news:publication_date>2015-11-12T12:52:03+00:00</news:publication_date>
</news:news>
</url>
<url>
If I go to the news tools homepage in google its telling me that the site is included in Google News. But how can I check that my sitemap is working correctly?
The tag is valid but was in the wrong place in the XML structure.
<url>
<loc>
http://www.website.com/page
</loc>
<news:news>
<news:publication>
<news:name>Sitename/news:name>
<news:language>en</news:language>
</news:publication>
<news:title>Page title here</news:title>
<news:publication_date>2015-11-12T14:16:31+00:00</news:publication_date>
<news:keywords>Shopping</news:keywords>
</news:news>
</url>