Compatible with new Google-Standarts?

  • Resolved Franz92

    (@franz92)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    Hello!
    Thank you very much for a great plugin! I am trying to get Google News to index the page see-online.info again, but I am not quite sure whether your plugin generates a sitemap which complies with this example:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom10='https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<channel>
 <link>https://www.link_to_channel.com</link>
 <description>Description of the channel (e.g. News Site’s best articles of the day)</description>
 <title>News Site’s editor’s picks</title>
 <image>
    <url>https://www.link_to_logo_image.png</url>
    <title>text to use as alternative for the image</title>
    <link>https://www.link_pointed_to_by_the_image.com</link>
 </image>
 <item>
   <title>Headline for first article</title>
   <link>https://www.newssite.com/long-island/first-article-1.2654166</link>
   <description>Some details</description>
   <author>Author name</author>
 </item>

 <item>
    <title>Headline for second article</title>
   <link>https://www.newssite.com/second-article-1.2654350</link>
   <description>Some details</description>
   <author>Author name</author>
 </item>

 <item>
   <title>Headline for third article</title>
   <link>https://www.newssite.com/third-article-1.2654952</link>
   <description>Some details</description>
   <author>Author name</author>
 </item>

 <item>
   <title>Headline for fourth article</title>
   <link>https://www.newssite.com/fourth-article-1.3732094</link>
   <description>Some details</description>
   <author>Author name</author>
 </item>

 <item>
   <title>Headline for fifth article</title>
   <link>https://www.newssite.com/fifth-article-1.2654358</link>
   <description>Some details</description>
   <author>Author name</author>
 </item>

</channel>
</rss>

    I am especially unsure how to get this

    <channel>
 <link>https://www.link_to_channel.com</link>
 <description>Description of the channel (e.g. News Site’s best articles of the day)</description>
 <title>News Site’s editor’s picks</title>
 <image>
    <url>https://www.link_to_logo_image.png</url>
    <title>text to use as alternative for the image</title>
    <link>https://www.link_pointed_to_by_the_image.com</link>
 </image>

    into the generated sitemap. Simply edit xml-sitemap-feed/includes/feed-sitemap-news.php? (and not forget the </channel> ? ) Thank you very much in advance!

    Franz

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/

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  • Hi Franz,

    This plugin only generates a news sitemap following the standards described on https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74288 (please note that not all tags are currently supported but more of them will be in a future release)

    You can preview your news sitemap on your domain plus /?feed=sitemap-news but if you activate the Google News sitemap option on Settings > Reading, it will become available as /sitemap-news.xml and it will be included in your /robots.txt

    If you need a feed that complies with Atom standards, just try /feed/atom/ ?? but otherwise you would need to edit feed-sitemap-news.php but be aware that your mods will be lost after the next update!

    OK, from the comments you posted on my website, I understand you are trying to create an Editors’ Pick feed. I’ll repeat my reply here as it might be more useful to continue the discussion on this forum instead of via the commenting system:

    OK, I see… an Editors’ Picks RSS feed. That’s different from a News feed. Integrating that into the plugin (or a separate plugin) would mean a lot of work. Maybe if you tried the following?

    Create a dedicated category (or tag) called Editors’ Pick on your site and assign any posts that you want in the Editors’ Picks feed. Then submit the feed https://see-online.info/category/editors-pick/feed/ to Google. This will now serve as your Editors’ Picks RSS feed… but without logo. Or is that really a deal breaker for them?

    Thread Starter Franz92

    (@franz92)

    Hello and thank you very much for replying.

    You are right, it makes more sense to discuss here.

    I sent the News-Sitemap https://see-online.info/sitemap-news.xml to Google News and hope to show of in the GoogleNews-Section. I also tested it in Webmaster Tools and it works. Thanks for that! There should be now no problem to get included, shouldn’t it?

    I am still puzzled by Editor’s pick – this is optional, a feature, isn’t it? I do not need to send them a Editor’s Pick RSS Feed?

    There should be now no problem to get included, shouldn’t it?

    That’s up to Google News ??

    I am still puzzled by Editor’s pick – this is optional, a feature, isn’t it? I do not need to send them a Editor’s Pick RSS Feed?

    As far as I know it is optional. But indeed a nice feature so I’ll consider building that into a future release ??

    Let me know how it goes with the inclusion of your site in Google News. I have no experience with them at all, I just go by what the documentation describes so if there’s any problem, I’d love to hear about it.

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