google sitemap support

mtupker · Post by **mtupker** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:40 pm

I may be alone on this but I think google sitemap support would be very nice. I've been trying to moddify one of the RSS feeds but with little luck. Thanks.

Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:12 pm

Hi,

nice idea. I think about it...

bye
Thorsten

wolf · Post by **wolf** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:27 pm

I think that's an excellent idea. Here are some issues you may want to consider:

The URL of the entry should be easy to generate, since you probably already have a function that creates the proper URL for an entry based on whether mod_rewrite is enabled. The URLs are the only entries in the Google sitemap that are mandatory, so the following three issues are optional.
The change frequency could be set globally, but it might be appropriate to have phpMyFaq automatically determine how often each entry is updated, and then set the change frequency accordingly. The "faqchanges" table may already contain the data that can provide these statistics.
The last modification date of each entry is already in the database.
The priority, if chosen, could be either the number of times an entry has been viewed, or it could be based on the votes results.

david_de · Post by **david_de** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:16 pm

I just go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ give the the site address and it produces sitemaps in xml, xml.gz, text, and html. Then submit to Google and Yahoo. It picks up every single FAQ and indexes them all.

wolf · Post by **wolf** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:04 pm

david_de wrote:It picks up every single FAQ and indexes them all.

I'm sure it does. However, it's one of those "yet another thing to do" situations; I'd prefer to have phpMyFaq automatically generate the sitemap when a FAQ entry is added or updated rather than have to perform an additional manual task.

- wolf -

matteo · Post by **matteo** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:03 pm

Hi all,
FYI, in PMF 2.x a Google Sitemap generator will be available (just take a look tomorrow at the nightly built snapshot) through one of these urls:

http://[...]/sitemap.google.php
http://[...]/sitemap.google.php?gz=1
http://[...]/sitemap.xml
http://[...]/sitemap.xml.gz

Currently, the priority is set between 0.5 and 1.0 based upon faq visits data whilst the change frequency is fixed to daily, to avoid an increase of load for the on-the-fly generation (we'll investigate if an easy solution with a low load could be achieved).