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sitemap does not include actual doc pages #14

Closed rgerhards closed 10 years ago

rgerhards commented 10 years ago

Reported by Thomas D.

These sub folders aren't in your sitemap (http://www.rsyslog.com/files/sitemap.xml.gz). And due to "weekly" for "doc", changes may take a week to be recognized by Google.

rgerhards commented 10 years ago

There is no Wordpress plugin to automatically generate sitemaps for these static pages. Any suggestions for a tool or process to build them (e.g. based on file system content). Or do we need to maintain them manually?

Whissi commented 10 years ago

FYI: I am Thomas... so you can mention me on GitHub in future with @Whissi.

You don't need a sitemap at all. A sitemap is only a hint and recommended for bad linked content. If the content is accessible from the startpage (no direct link is needed, but the bot must be able to access /doc for example to find the /doc/v7-stable link... and so on) everything is fine.

So if the sitemap is not complete I would suggest to remove it.

rgerhards commented 10 years ago

Yeah, I know about that part of sitemaps. However, they still help the search engines to detect all pages. It's also fine to submit multiple sitemaps (I think at least some time in the past google has actually encouraged that). So for the doc it probably makes a lot of sense to have these static pages submitted in any case. But as you say... it's not mandatory and Google indexed these pages pretty well until we screwed up with something that I do not yet fully understand but getting closer ;)

rgerhards commented 10 years ago

This is also solved. Sitemaps for the static pages have been generated, uploaded and registered.