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| author | http://hendry.iki.fi/ <http://hendry.iki.fi/@web> | 2008-08-02 15:00:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-08-02 15:00:49 -0400 |
| commit | 66ca8541c26c0b4d08bf44fed8bc50469959aef9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d07be22d7e97813afc02faea290157d13812dbb | |
| parent | 9ee5161774d903aa3aa6c285dcf63bdcf0310041 (diff) | |
update on google not grokking feeds
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn b/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn index 39a3522d2..61d3b4c32 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn @@ -39,4 +39,8 @@ According to [Google Webmaster tools](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/), There is a [sitemap XML standard](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php) that ikiwiki needs to generate for. -Update: I've since discovered under [Google Webmaster tools 'Subscriber stats'](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/subscriberstats), you can tell Google to treat a feed as a sitemap. Therefore in many cases just submitting your [[ikiwiki/blog/]]'s feed will be enough for Google to start better indexing your ikiwiki site. +Update: I've since discovered under [Google Webmaster tools 'Subscriber stats'](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/subscriberstats), you can tell Google to treat a feed as a sitemap. Therefore in many cases just submitting your [[ikiwiki/blog/]]'s feed will be enough for Google to start better indexing your ikiwiki site. **Update:** Sorry this is bollocks. Google doesn't grok a feed as a sitemap. You'll get a ERROR: + + 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. |