Sitemaps Roadmap

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

Root

• ​http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8476
• ​http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

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

• Thoughts & To-Dos