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:
- Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag.
- Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the <urlset> tag.
- Include a <url> entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag.
- 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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