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Create a new index template with the following code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">
<MTEntries lastn="1000">
<url>
<loc><$MTEntryPermalink$></loc>
<lastmod><$MTEntryModifiedDate format="%Y-%m-%d"$></lastmod>
</url>
</MTEntries>
</urlset>
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Save and build the file.
The above code creates a Google sitemap file containing individual entry links. If you want category archives links and date-based archives links you can add them easily using MT Template tags. Your sitemap file may not be larger than 10MB.
Now you can submit your sitemap to Google through your Sitemaps account or using an HTTP request to the following URL: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://url_of_your_/sitemap.xml
There are two more tags you can put inside <url></url>: changefreq (how frequently the content is likely to change) and priority (priority of the page relative to other pages on the site).
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