Google Sitemaps

Thanks to Wyome, he created a googlesitemaps theme. It's probably obvious to anyone what then to do with it, but I'm documenting it anyway.

1. Download the googlesitemaps theme.

Download it from here

Put the theme into your themes/ directory.

2. Modify the templates.

For each articles module pubtype,

• create the modules/articles/user-summary-XXX.xt tempate (copy existing one and rename)
• edit the base/user-main.xt to include a <xar:module> for the pubtype, such as
• <xar:module main="false" module="articles" ptid="9" numitems="1000" />

Note, you can also add tags for <changefreq> and <priority> for specific pubtypes (or even specific articles), such as

			    < changefreq>monthly</changefreq>

	< priority>0.8</priority>
	

And you can add similar templates for other modules (like xarpages). [Add explanation here, once i do it myself]. 

3. Install the theme via Admin > Global > Themes

4. Tell google

Assuming you already have a webmaster tools account on google, go to My Sites and tell it your URL for the sitemaps, e.g.

http://www.vaporbase.com/index.php?module=base&theme=googlesitemap

REFERENCES

• https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html
• http://www.xaraya.com/index.php/release/displaynote/137.html
  
• http://wyome.com/blog/Google_SiteMap
  
• http://wyome.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=7&aid=452