[xwiki-devs] support for google sitemaps and webmaster tools? (and why do xwiki RDF's give "unsupported file format"?)
Has anybody figured out a way to get xwiki to generate a Google sitemap as an alternative to RSS feeds? (see http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html ). Also, video sitemaps ( http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472&cbid=sw9...) would be useful to index xwiki attachments and media on media search engines ( http://video.google.com/ ). Video sitemaps are predicated on MRSS: *Using an mRSS feed as a Video Sitemap* back to top<http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472&cbid=sw9kur0v6z6j&src=cb&lev=topic#Top> Google supports mRSS <http://search.yahoo.com/mrss>, an RSS module that supplements the element capabilities of RSS 2.0<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html>to allow for more robust media syndication. If you publish an mRSS feed for the video content on your site, you can submit the feed's URL as a Sitemap. For detailed information on creating an mRSS feed, including samples and best practices, please see the Media RSS specification<http://search.yahoo.com/mrss>. Google also supports RSS 2.0 using enclosures tags for video content and thumbnail urls. **Sitemaps seem to use their own protocol:
*XML Sitemap Format*
The Sitemap Protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped<https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#escaped>. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
A sample Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags is shown below. The optional tags are in italics.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#urlsetdef> xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <url <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#urldef>> <loc <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#locdef>>http://www.example.com/</loc> *<lastmod <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#lastmoddef>>2005-01-01</lastmod> <changefreq <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#changefreqdef>>monthly</changefreq> <priority <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#prioritydef>>0.8</priority>* </url> </urlset>
The Sitemap must:
- Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset>tag. - Include a <url> entry for each URL as a parent XML tag. - Include a <loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag.
Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: google sitemap support sounds like a good entry-level GSOC project. :-) Probably just a big hack to existing code in Main.WebRss?xpage=rdf and Main.BlogRss?xpage=rdf. Probably a 1 day project for someone that knows how.... PPS: why does http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebRss?xpage=rdfwork in many places, display correctly in firefox 3, but when used to generate a sitemap in google webmaster tools, it fails. (Meanwhile roller blogger's RSS feed succeeds): roller/NielsMayer/feed/entries/atom Atom Feed 5 hours ago OK 32 xwiki/bin/view/Main/BlogRss?xpage=rdf -- 5 hours ago Errors -- xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebRss?xpage=rdf -- 5 hours ago Errors The reported problem coming from xwiki's xpage=rdf feeds: *Unsupported file format*
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit. Help<http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35738&hl=en> [image: Help]
Niels Mayer wrote:
Has anybody figured out a way to get xwiki to generate a Google sitemap as an alternative to RSS feeds? (see http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html ). Also, video sitemaps ( http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472&cbid=sw9...) would be useful to index xwiki attachments and media on media search engines ( http://video.google.com/ ). Video sitemaps are predicated on MRSS:
*Using an mRSS feed as a Video Sitemap* back to top<http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472&cbid=sw9kur0v6z6j&src=cb&lev=topic#Top>
Google supports mRSS <http://search.yahoo.com/mrss>, an RSS module that supplements the element capabilities of RSS 2.0<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html>to allow for more robust media syndication. If you publish an mRSS feed for the video content on your site, you can submit the feed's URL as a Sitemap. For detailed information on creating an mRSS feed, including samples and best practices, please see the Media RSS specification<http://search.yahoo.com/mrss>. Google also supports RSS 2.0 using enclosures tags for video content and thumbnail urls.
**Sitemaps seem to use their own protocol:
*XML Sitemap Format*
The Sitemap Protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped<https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#escaped>. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
A sample Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags is shown below. The optional tags are in italics.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#urlsetdef> xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <url <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#urldef>> <loc <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#locdef>>http://www.example.com/</loc> *<lastmod <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#lastmoddef>>2005-01-01</lastmod> <changefreq <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#changefreqdef>>monthly</changefreq> <priority <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#prioritydef>>0.8</priority>* </url> </urlset>
The Sitemap must:
- Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset>tag. - Include a <url> entry for each URL as a parent XML tag. - Include a <loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag.
Niels http://nielsmayer.com
PS: google sitemap support sounds like a good entry-level GSOC project. :-) Probably just a big hack to existing code in Main.WebRss?xpage=rdf and Main.BlogRss?xpage=rdf. Probably a 1 day project for someone that knows how....
PPS: why does http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebRss?xpage=rdfwork in many places, display correctly in firefox 3, but when used to generate a sitemap in google webmaster tools, it fails. (Meanwhile roller blogger's RSS feed succeeds):
roller/NielsMayer/feed/entries/atom Atom Feed 5 hours ago OK 32 xwiki/bin/view/Main/BlogRss?xpage=rdf -- 5 hours ago Errors -- xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebRss?xpage=rdf -- 5 hours ago Errors
The reported problem coming from xwiki's xpage=rdf feeds:
*Unsupported file format*
Just an idea... maybe they expect the ".xml" extension ? Jerome
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit. Help<http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35738&hl=en> [image: Help]
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