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Setting Up Google News Sitemap Feed with Outbound Feeds

The Google News Sitemap feed uses the sitemap-news block which is an out-of-the-box template that uses custom fields to quickly and easily set up, configure and manage your feed.

Feed Setup

The Google News Sitemap feed is a platform level Arc feed block with configurable and customizable parameters. It contains a news tag that was created by Google to provide additional information about each article.

Steps to configure the Google News Sitemap feed.

Sitemap Configuration

1. ANS Image Title Key

ANS field to get the image title from promo_items.basic.

default: title

2. ANS Image Caption Key

ANS field to get the image caption from promo_items.basic.

default: caption

3. Include Promo Items

Used to determine whether to include promo_items in the sitemap or not. True/False

default: true

4. Path to promo_items

ANS field to use for the featured media, supports a JMESPath statement.

default: promo_items.basic || promo_items.lead_art

5. Image height and or width

A set of key value pairs where you can set an integer height and or width to resize all images. Zero means no resizing will be performed.

default: height: 0, width: 0

Field Mapping

1. Publication Name

Name to use in the <news:name> tag. If left blank it will use the environment variable feedTitle from blocks.json.

default: feedTitle value

2. Language

Language code to use in the <news:language> tag. If left blank it will use the environment variable feedLanguage from blocks.json. Use Exclude to remove this tag.

default: feedTitle value

3. Article Title

ANS field to be used for the headline.

default: headlines.basic

4. Keywords

ANS field to be used for keywords.

Select one: taxonomy.seo_keywords or taxonomy.tags.text

default: seo_keywords

Format

1. Last Modified Date

ANS date field

Select one: created_date, display_date, first_publish_date, last_updated_date, or publish_date.

default: last_updated_date

2. Priority

Sitemap priority is a hint to the consumer of how important these links are in the website.

Select one: numbers from 0.0 to 1.0

default: 0.5

3. Change Frequency

Denotes the suggested frequency bots should revisit the sitemap for updates.

Select one: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never, Exclude field

default: always

Resolver Configuration

Each feed template needs to have a resolver applied. To Create A Resolver, you’ll want to configure these fields.

1. Resolver Name

Unique name given to the resolver, for example sitemap-news

2. Resolver Priority

Number to indicate priority order (1 to 100). Lower numbers are evaluated first.

3. Regex Pattern

^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/?$
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/category/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/author/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/keyword/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags_slug/(.*)/?$

4. URL Parameters

Google News Sitemap Feed

5. Websites

all

6. Content Source

feeds-content-api

There are also optional content sources available out-of-the-box, details Here.

7. Patterns

These positions come from the regex pattern. There are a number of ways to pass a section (or author, keyword or tag) to the content source from the resolver. All of them use a grouping () in the regex.

Section - Pattern 1

^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/?$
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/category/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/author/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/keyword/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags_slug/(.*)/?$

Author - Pattern 2

^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/?$
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/category/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/author/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/keyword/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags_slug/(.*)/?$

Keywords - Pattern 3

^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/?$
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/category/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/author/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/keyword/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags_slug/(.*)/?$

Tags - Text - Pattern 4

^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/?$
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/category/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/author/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/keyword/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags_slug/(.*)/?$

Tags - Slug - Pattern 5

^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/?$
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/category/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/author/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/keyword/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags/(.*)/?$|
^/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/tags_slug/(.*)/?$

Include - Terms

Modify the query used by the content source. More information on queries can be found Here.

Exclude - Terms

Modify the query used by the content source. More information on queries can be found Here.

Exclude - Sections

You can enter a comma separated list of sections to exclude. For example /premium,/paid-content.

Feed - Size

Integer 1 to 100. Defaults to 100. If you added a size URL parameter, select the parameter option and select size and enter a default value.

Feed - Offset

Integer. Defaults to 0. If you added a from URL parameter, select the parameter option and select from and enter a default value.

Sort - last\updated\date:desc

If left blank it will default to publish_date:desc. The date field you selected to display for the Last Modified Date is the date you should enter here. The format is date_field + ":" + sort order (desc or asc). Valid date fields are created_date, display_date, first_publish_date, last_updated_date, or publish_date.

Source - Exclude - A comma separated list of ANS fields to remove from the default list of ANS fields. See the default list Here

Source- Include - A comma separated list of ANS fields to add to the default list of ANS fields. See the default list Here

Include - Distributor - Name

If you only want content from a single distributor, enter the name here. You may only populate one distributor field.

Exclude - Distributor - Name

If you want to exclude content from a single distributor, enter the name here. You may only populate one distributor field.

Include - Distributor - Category

If you only want content from a single distributor category, enter the name here. You may only populate one distributor field.

Exclude - Distributor - Category

If you want to exclude content from a single distributor category, enter the name here. You may only populate one distributor field.

8. Default Template

Select the template you just created news-sitemap-feed to use with this resolver.

9. Default output type

Select xml.

10. Content Mapped Template

blank

Google News Sitemap URL

To preview your Google News Sitemap XML, modify the URL below with the your client org and website name.

https://outboundfeeds.CLIENTORG.arcpublishing.com/pf/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news/?_website=CLIENTWEBSITE NAME

Google News Sitemap XML

Additional Information

All sitemaps adhere to the Standard Sitemap Protocol and implement Google’s extensions for both Images and Videos.