Has anyone had a chance to play with google sitemaps?
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps
Is there be a way to create a google site map with matrix?
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You could easily create a sitemap in XML format using an Asset Listing to generate the XML (much like we create RSS feeds already).
Do you think that google sitemaps would be very beneficial? Should we start using them?
[quote]Is there be a way to create a google site map with matrix?
[right][post=“6431”]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post][/right][/quote]It looks like it’s a pretty simple exercise.
[quote]It looks like it’s a pretty simple exercise.
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Yes it does.
Has anyone used one?
Do people think we should use them?
[quote]Do people think we should use them?
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I think it completely depends on the client and the nature of the site. Whether we should or not is a moot question: Its up to whether the client feels there would be a tangible benefit.
Technically, however, we could do it even with v3.4.
Personally, I don't think we should adopt more Google features. Google is getting so large that they now have the power to ruin small businesses by sand-boxing or any other process that drops you from their listing.
A case of "All eggs in one basket" if you ask me. The other search engines NEED to catch up and give google a run for their money.
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I dont think anyone is suggesting that we ONLY provide a Google site map - or to even add this as an option to the current site map. I think James just wants to know if we can offer this to clients. They dont all hate Google as much as you do 
[quote]You could easily create a sitemap in XML format using an Asset Listing to generate the XML (much like we create RSS feeds already).
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Has anyone done this? If so, some help would be greatly appreciated. One of the main questions I have is that Google requires the url of the xml sitemap to have a .xml extension. How would you create a page in Matrix that ends in that extension?
This raises another question about file extensions in Matrix: How does Matrix handle the urls/web paths? URL’s in my system are www.domain.com/page_name. There is no file extension here, so how does it work?
[quote]Has anyone done this? If so, some help would be greatly appreciated. One of the main questions I have is that Google requires the url of the xml sitemap to have a .xml extension. How would you create a page in Matrix that ends in that extension?
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Just set the web path of a page to “sitemap.xml” and Matrix will set the URL to that. You’ll also want to create a special cut-down design for this page that only prints the body of the page and sends an XML content type header. The parse file would be something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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