Google News Sitemap Generator for Wordpress

Posted by admin in Coding, Internet, SE... | 11.25.2006 - 5:28 am

In an effort to assist news publishers with control over which articles are included in Google News and how, Google has launched a new Sitemap protocol and additions to Google webmaster tools for Google News.

For those who use Wordpress as their CMS to manage news stories.

David Stansbury modified simple, standard sitemap generator script to output a Google News sitemap feed.

Simply download and unzip the file, modify the categories keywords list, and upload to your main WordPress directory.

To submit the feed URL to Google. Simply sign into Google Webmaster Tools.

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    • 4 responses on "Google News Sitemap Generator for Wordpress" »

    MyAvatars 0.2 John Balla
    Posted on January 31, 2008

    i have been struggling with the “invalid date format” issue for several days now. i have researched the correct protocol via Google, W3C, and even the PHP code in Wordpress vis-a-vis date format protocols and options.

    i have also made sure that my date is actually not a future date, but still the error continues.

    i’m really excited to get this to work, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    thanks,

    john balla

    MyAvatars 0.2 David Stansbury
    Posted on March 10, 2008

    Hi John & All,

    I fixed my dummy typo which was breaking the time format, please give it a go. I overwrote the existing file so the download link in this article is still valid. Let me know if it works out for you.

    Thanks, Dave

    MyAvatars 0.2 Matteo
    Posted on April 16, 2008

    Hello

    Your sitemap works but realize an output with the whole permalinks of your site and if you have more than 1000, Google News produce an error saying that it cannot analyze all of them. Is it possibile to realize the same file rpducing an output of the last 10 articles ?

    MyAvatars 0.2 Brian
    Posted on August 18, 2008

    Hi dave, do you install this in the plugin folder. I’m running version 2.6.1

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