Sitemap templates
Here’s a basic template for generating a Google Sitemap. Set the template type to RSS Page. You can change the values in red, see the Protocol for more info.
{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="weblog1"}
{assign_variable:template_group_name="weblog"}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
<url>
<loc>{homepage}</loc>
<lastmod>{exp:stats}{last_entry_date format="%Y-%m-
T;%H:%i:%s%Q"}{/exp:stats}</lastmod>
<changefreq><span style="color:red;">always</span></changefreq>
<priority><span style="color:red;">1.0</span></priority>
</url>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="<span style="color:red;">500</span>" disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" rdf="off" dynamic="off" status="Open"}
<url>
<loc><span style="color:red;">{title_permalink="{template_group_name}/comments"}</span></loc>
<lastmod>{gmt_edit_date format='%Y-%m-
T;%H:%i:%s%Q'}</lastmod>
<changefreq><span style="color:red;">weekly</span></changefreq>
<priority><span style="color:red;">0.5</span></priority>
</url>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</urlset>
If you want the last 30 entries on your blog to get a higher priority or be crawled more frequently than older entries:
{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="weblog1"}
{assign_variable:template_group_name="weblog"}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
<url>
<loc>{homepage}</loc>
<lastmod>{exp:stats}{last_entry_date format="%Y-%m-
T;%H:%i:%s%Q"}{/exp:stats}</lastmod>
<changefreq><span style="color:red;">always</span></changefreq>
<priority><span style="color:red;">1.0</span></priority>
</url>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="<span style="color:red;">30</span>" disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" rdf="off" dynamic="off" status="Open"}
<url>
<loc><span style="color:red;">{title_permalink="{template_group_name}/comments"}</span></loc>
<lastmod>{gmt_edit_date format='%Y-%m-
T;%H:%i:%s%Q'}</lastmod>
<changefreq><span style="color:red;">weekly</span></changefreq>
<priority><span style="color:red;">0.8</span></priority>
</url>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" offset="<span style="color:red;">30</span>" limit="<span style="color:red;">500</span>" disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" rdf="off" dynamic="off" status="Open"}
<url>
<loc><span style="color:red;">{title_permalink="{template_group_name}/comments"}</span></loc>
<lastmod>{gmt_edit_date format='%Y-%m-
T;%H:%i:%s%Q'}</lastmod>
<changefreq><span style="color:red;">monthly</span></changefreq>
<priority><span style="color:red;">0.5</span></priority>
</url>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</urlset>
Placing the sitemap in your server’s root level
According to Google’s new sitemap rules, their sitemap tool does not accept URLs from a higher level or a different level. antbe, from the pMachine.com forums, posted a simple php workaround for this problem in this thread. The solution is the following (quoted from the original source):
EE doesn’t let you do this, but we can do that with a simple PHP script.
#Create a template, for example on /weblog/sitemap, like is explained on here
#The url of your sitemap will be http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/weblog/sitemap/ or similar.
#Create a sitemap.php file and put it on your root path, the url of that file will be http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.php
#The sitemap.php file must contain:
<?php
// Prevent content to be cached
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Content was generated on past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); //Content is always modified
// Inform user agent that content is XML and is UTF-8 encoded
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');
// Read content from template and show it
@readfile ('http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/weblog/sitemap/')
?>
Now http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.php url is a clone of your template, use it on Google Sitemap.
For you fine folks on Dreamhost.com, since they don’t allow @readfile you may want to try this:
<?php
// Prevent content to be cached
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Content was generated on past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); //Content is always modified
// Inform user agent that content is XML and is UTF-8 encoded
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');
// Read content from template and show it
$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/weblog/sitemap');
curl_exec($curl_handle)
curl_close($curl_handle);
?>
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