Description for URL in Google Sitemap - sitemap

Question

Is it possible to specify description for URL-element in Google Sitemaps?
Example (see description-tag):
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/dogs</loc>
<description>This page for dogs, you can find new products for dogs here.</description>
<changefreq>hourly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://www.example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/cats</loc>
<description>This page for cats, you can find new products for cats here.</description>
<changefreq>hourly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://www.example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
Thank you!

Answer 1

Second the support of Google for sitemaps you can submit a RSS or atom file (a xml) like a sitemap.
In RSS or atom file you can to put a description for the url. You can read the especification of RSS
An exemple:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>RSS Title</title>
<description>This is an example of an RSS feed</description>
<link>http://www.someexamplerssdomain.com/main.html</link>
<lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0000 </lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2009 16:45:00 +0000 </pubDate>
<ttl>1800</ttl>
<item>
<title>Example entry</title>
<description>Here is some text containing an interesting description.</description>
<link>http://www.wikipedia.org/</link>
<guid>unique string per item</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2009 16:45:00 +0000 </pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>