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Sitemaps: extend news sitemap to add Google News compatible RSS Feeds #19556

Open jeherve opened 3 years ago

jeherve commented 3 years ago

Extracted from #19550.

While Google does not have any hard requirements for posts to appear in Google News, Google News compatible RSS Feeds seem to offer an advantage when the posts are displayed.

The basic requirements seem to be a valid RSS feed, but there are additional requirements here: https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9545420 https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9545245

Maybe Jetpack could customize the RSS feed format to match those requirements when the Sitemap module is enabled.

StefMattana commented 3 years ago

The user who's generated the feature request has followed up with more information they'd like us to have. They can't use GitHub so I'm being the proxy for them:

To add further details about Google News compatible RSS Feeds:

Compatible RSS Feed requirement checklist.

  1. Not possible: Google News requires post featured images inside RSS feeds to display them as thumbnail images which the default WordPress RSS feed doesn't do neither it does provide any such option.

  2. Not possible: GN Publisher plugin pings the Google News Publisher Center as soon as a new article is published and logs the most recent ping inside the RSS feed, that is not possible with the built-in WordPress RSS feeds. So delay of article indexing occurs.

  3. Possible: Google News requires full article content inside the RSS feed to crwal the feed content. With the default RSS feeds there is option to switch between display of Full content and Excerpt for RSS feeds. So this is possible.

  4. Not possible: GN Publisher plugin isn't influenced by caching mechanisms due to which always new content gets pushed faster to the Google News Publisher Center. Where as the default WordPress RSS Feed is cached and has a delay between updates.

  5. Not possible: The default WordPress RSS feed skips social media and Instagram embeds, where as GN Publisher plugin includes them which makes them appear on the Google News feed view.

You can find all the differences at https://wordpress.org/plugins/gn-publisher/

Hope it helps :)

jenhooks commented 3 years ago

Hi! The user has an additional request to make each sitemap option able to be independently enabled. Looks like there's a stale issue here with similar vibes: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/8433

tmmbecker commented 2 years ago

This would come in handy for Newspack publishers who use Jetpack sitemaps by default.