Comments on: Google News To Release With WordPress

By: GrantG

GrantG — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:37:25 +0000

Hi folks.

In case anyone has missed the obvious - and had to go away searching like I did - to set the 'Unique 3 Digit Code' to WordPress blogs, you will have to set your Permalink structure to:

/%postname%-%post_id%/

As default his will produce URL's such as yoursite.com/my-favourite-news-article-1/

This is where the trick comes in handy. IF, like me, you have not yet added any news articles to your blog, edit your MySQL database and set the autoincrement start value to 100 for wp_posts - thus, your first post will have ID 100, then 101, 102, 103 and so on. Now your URLs will be like yoursite.com/my-favourite-news-article-100/

Remember you can change the permalink structure to suit not only Google News, but also for SEO purposes.

Thanks for posting the code above, I'm now well on my way to integrating WordPress with an ecommerce solution to build an online store/news resource.

Cheers

By: Using Google News to drive traffic to your site | CoPress

Using Google News to drive traffic to your site | CoPress — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:18:16 +0000

[...] by Google in the Getting Started section. If you are running a WordPress site, WP Engineer has specific instructions for you to get this [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:54:51 +0000

Once you create the php file, how do you then access it as an XML file?

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:56:23 +0000

Where did you see this?

By: SiriusBuzz.com

SiriusBuzz.com — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:28:36 +0000

I also noticed that they said you shouldn't have any news items older then 72 hours old. Actually, they said 3 days but, you get the idea. I don't know who the heck has the ability to post 1k items in 3 days.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:55:39 +0000

According to Google:

A News sitemap can contain no more than 1,000 URLs. If you want to include more, you can either break these into multiple sitemaps or create a Sitemap index file to manage them. Use the XML format provided in the Sitemap protocol. Your sitemap index file shouldn't list more than 1,000 sitemaps. These limits help ensure that your web server isn't overloaded by serving large files to Google News.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=74288&topic=10078

Hope that answers your question...

By: SiriusBuzz.com

SiriusBuzz.com — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:18:42 +0000

Is there any reason we would want to limit the sitemap to 20 items? I have looked around but I cant find a suggested/optimal number to feed Google with.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:16:54 +0000

Hi Siriusbuzz to get the 3 digit id I updated my permalinks structure. I couldn't find any other way to do this.

By: SiriusBuzz.com

SiriusBuzz.com — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:51:01 +0000

@Greg
How did you get the 3 digit unique code in to your urls without updating your permalink structure? Or did you?

@Alex,
From what I can see on the webmaster tools you can simply submit an rss feed instead of using a sitemap.xml. Why go through the trouble of creating this is their own feed from feedburner would work?

By: nemoprincess

nemoprincess — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:28:38 +0000

Hello Alex, great post for me too.
I follow it but running my php file I have only three old posts of my blog.
What's wrong?
Thank you very much