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User Interface for Granular Control of Jetpack Sitemaps #9915

Open pmciano opened 6 years ago

pmciano commented 6 years ago

We received the following suggestion from a user in the forums:

Dynamic sitemap creation is a great feature, except it makes it easy to inadvertently show everything to every search engine.

Seems the Jetpack plugin would benefit from offering easy control of such functionality through the UI.

Pretty sure there are a lot of people that see ‘automatic sitemap’ and think ‘cool’, without realizing they are inadvertently announcing every page / post on their site to every search engine, even development pages with development titles.

It makes perfect sense for Jetpack to obey the ‘noindex’ settings. Jetpack ought to allow users to create a ‘don’t show list’ or a don’t show flag. Otherwise, ‘noise’ from pages and posts that aren’t relevant sitemap overwhelms the Given the custom tweaking necessary to disable that

metamocap commented 6 years ago

Related: Feature Request: Post Exclusion for Sitemaps #9276 https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/9276

Sorry to see this was given a low priority.

pmciano commented 6 years ago

@metamocap Do you feel the other issue covers the entirety of the changes you were looking for, or did you have additional features in mind for inclusion?

metamocap commented 6 years ago

Hi Paul,

The suggestions in that thread would help, but I don’t think that’s the entire issue.

Documentation for how to skip posts and pages doesn’t make much sense to someone with little php experience.

I’m still awaiting moderation of my questions from as far back as July 20. Seems my comment from that day, and a comment from two days later are still ‘awaiting moderation’. https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_sitemap_skip_post/

I think it is important to make it easy to skip posts and pages, and even turn off the video and image sitemaps if not useful.

The sitemap feature has created a LOT of work for me, trying to figure out how to limit its range. The ‘just show all’ feature has left a LOT of work for me, in regards to pages on our site that were never meant to be included in a sitemap (or shouted out to every search engine, for that matter.)

Considering how many newbies are inclined to use Jetpack for their sitemaps, this really ought to be made easier. Can’t imagine why this basic functionality has never been wrapped into the UI.

Thank you.

Thanks, also for seeing if you can help with the moderation of my questions, so I can get relevant answers.

Lee

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pmciano commented 6 years ago

@metamocap

The suggestions in that thread would help, but I don’t think that’s the entire issue.

Will do. We will leave this issue open.

We appreciate your feedback and patience.

metamocap commented 6 years ago

Hi Paul,

Guessing you’re all very busy… looming deadlines?

I asked some questions on https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_sitemap_skip_post/ but it seems my comments are still awaiting moderation. It has been nearly a week since the first question was posted.

I hope to get the answers to my questions soon. Really appreciate any resources you can send my way (i.e.; answers to questions posted.)

Thank you Paul.

Best,

Lee

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@metamocap https://github.com/metamocap

The suggestions in that thread would help, but I don’t think that’s the entire issue.

Will do. We will leave this issue open.

We appreciate your feedback and patience.

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pmciano commented 6 years ago

@metamocap

I asked some questions on https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_sitemap_skip_post/ but it seems my comments are still awaiting moderation.

We are going to follow up on your questions via email. You should hear from us shortly.

Thank you for your patience.

anaemnesis commented 5 years ago

Requested in #1538715-zen

MarcoAix commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I can tell this is not a little problem: Google shows my legal pages in good position but none of my 12 portfolio pages though they all are the core of my website... all the opposite of what I need!

No fun

jeherve commented 5 years ago

@MarcoAix If you'd like to insert those Portfolio pages in your sitemap, you can use the jetpack_sitemap_post_types filter, as explained here: https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_sitemap_post_types/

MarcoAix commented 5 years ago

Hi, Thanks, but it's not utterly user friendly and would solve only 1 problem. So I'll have to use another plugin, which I wanted to avoid...

stale[bot] commented 5 years ago

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jenhooks commented 3 years ago

User in 3555307-zen would like to be able to exclude images with a user interface, rather than using a filter.

metabreakr commented 3 years ago

User in 4040773-zen would also like to exclude pages from their sitemap.