From 88a99387e09c7c43803129e72215ef3f6b4cafc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Newbold Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 17:30:10 -0700 Subject: initial sitemap.xml notes/template --- extra/sitemap/README.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ extra/sitemap/sitemap.xml | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 extra/sitemap/README.md create mode 100644 extra/sitemap/sitemap.xml (limited to 'extra/sitemap') diff --git a/extra/sitemap/README.md b/extra/sitemap/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6963bb1f --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/sitemap/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + +Google has a limit of 50k lines / 10 MByte for text sitemap files, and 50K +lines / 50 MByte for XML site map files. + +With a baseline of 100 million entities, that requires an index file pointing +to at least 2000x individual sitemaps. 3 hex characters is 12 bits, or 4096 +options; seems like an ok granularity to start with. + +Should look in to what archive.org does to generate their sitemap.xml, seems +simple, and comes in batches of exactly 50k. + +## Text Sitemaps + +Should be possible to create simple text-style sitemaps, one URL per line, and +link to these from a sitemap index. This is appealing because the sitemaps can +be generated very quickly from identifier SQL dump files, run through UNIX +commands (eg, to split and turn into URLs). Some script to create an XML +sitemap index to point at all the sitemaps would still be needed though. + + +## Resources + +Google sitemap verifier: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7451001 diff --git a/extra/sitemap/sitemap.xml b/extra/sitemap/sitemap.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4404bdc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/sitemap/sitemap.xml @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ + + + + {{page[0]|safe}} + + -- cgit v1.2.3