wiki:qPloneGoogleSitemapsRoadmap

Sitemaps Roadmap

The News Sitemap reference: http://docs.google.com/a/quintagroup.com/Doc?id=dgb4c3cf_24f766vrg6

Root

Regular Sitemaps

Requirements to Sitemaps from http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

  • The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
  • The Sitemap must:
    1. Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag.
    2. Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the <urlset> tag.
    3. Include a <url> entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag.
    4. Include a <loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag.
  • URLs in a Sitemap must be from a single host, domain
  • URLs can't refer to sibling directory (otside from url,containing sitemap location)

Current fixes for qPloneGoogleSitemap

  • Add "UTF-8" encoding
  • Up version for urlset namespace to "0.9"

Future

  • Add support of Sitemap index file
  • Add support of optional tags : changefreq, priority
  • Add policy support for calculate optional tags values
  • Add policy support for splitting sitemap into several sitemaps and bound them in sitemap index page

News Sitemaps

Differences from general sitemap

  • add news namespace
  • every URL must has <publication-date>
  • (publication date - current date) =< 3 days
  • number of URLs =< 1000

Mobile Sitemaps

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8493

Differences from general sitemap

  • add mobile namespace
  • add <mobile:mobile/> tag for every mobile link
  • Indexed only xhtml-mp pages

TODO

  • Create sitemap content type(s) for every specyfic SM, with default fields - from setup tab of current qPGSMs
  • ???Additional action for SM content type for pingin and validation (this urls and other properties setting up in appropriate schematas of the content type) ???
  • Use current functionality for that content type from
  • Create separate template for every Sitemap type

Thoughts

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