X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/11e24ff0dd27d9d87ce0b46f68b8d84eae110e7f..5c7771e01aafb7b2e197f58a725132e4c2f4bde8:/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn b/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn index 4de7168d2..057a88b72 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn @@ -34,7 +34,14 @@ for an example. You will probably need to strip out the metadata variables I >>>[xtermin.us rather than localhost](http://xtermin.us/git/?p=website.git;a=blob;f=plugins/googlesitemap.pm) is 404 now. >>> -- weakish +There is a [sitemap XML standard](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php) that ikiwiki needs to generate for. -According to [Google Webmaster tools](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/), my site isn't indexed for weeks at a time. Since I [blog](http://webconverger.org/blog/) every couple of days, that doesn't work. Yes I do have pingurl configured which [Google reader](http://reader.google.com/) does pick up quickly, but **not** the general search results from Google. +# Google Webmaster tools and RSS -There is a [sitemap XML standard](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php) that ikiwiki needs to generate for. +On [Google Webmaster tools](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools) you can substitute an RSS feed as a sitemap. Do not use Atom as if you have malformed XHTML it will fail to parse and you will get a ERROR message like so: + + We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting. + +[Google should grok feeds as sitemaps.](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34654) Or rather [[plugins/inline]] should be improved to support the [sitemap protocol](http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php) natively. + +-- [[Hendry]]