CheersnGears Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 In order to be properly included in Google News, Google requires a slightly modified sitemap. One limitation is that the sitemap only include articles from the past 2 days. It must also not create a new sitemap for each update, but instead update the previous one. Google adds a couple of extra tags that should be fields from the database. These should be selectable by the webmaster. This plug-in/app should allow for the selection of only certain article categories to be included in the sitemap. I am willing to be a tester as well as pay the purchase price of such an app. https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/74288?hl=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duken Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 That would be a great addon. Would be great if Google could index the pages as news sitesmap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheersnGears Posted June 19, 2018 Author Share Posted June 19, 2018 Bump. Are there any developers who are willing to take this on? I can help sponsor the development. Are there other webmasters who would like to sponsor as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian A. Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I would be willing to make it if you give me some more details in a PM with what should this app do since I'm not so good with SEO related stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheersnGears Posted June 21, 2018 Author Share Posted June 21, 2018 Google News sitemap is a standard sitemap format with some additional requirements. I am looking for a plug-in that will generate this sitemap for the IPS Pages application and Blog application. The sitemap should update every time a new article is posted must only include articles published in the last 2 days. Older articles should be pruned from the sitemap. Webmasters are not allowed to include advertisement posts in Google News. Thus, selecting categories in Pages are included in the sitemap would be essential. Ability to set the <news:genre> tag by category would be ideal. <news:keywords> should map to Meta Keywords from Pages, Not sure how to do with with Blog Generally list all the tags that the sitemap can have (genre, stock quotes, etc) and have the webmaster set those tags to a specific field in their database with the ability to toggle off if not needed. Additional required tags: <publication> - This would be the name of the website. <publication_date> - The publish date of the article or blog <title> - Title of the article or blog entry All of the reference is available here. https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/74288?hl=en All that said, Pages is very much the priority. If you don't think this will work for Blog, don't worry about it. Thank you. You can email me directly at drew.dowdell at cheersandgears.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beats23 Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 was this app created? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheersnGears Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 On 2/7/2019 at 11:29 PM, beats23 said: was this app created? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Millne Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 A news sitemap application is now available in the marketplace. Thanks to @CheersnGears for funding the development time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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