Re: Google News problem

Evan, as far as I know, the google spider only needs one fixed URL for section, just to know where it should begin to crawl. So Mugur's solution seems to be effective (anyway, I will tell you what they tell me about it).

 

 

2007/3/20, Evan Mellander < evanpraguemonitor.com">evanpraguemonitor.com>;:

Hi,

Thanks for addressing this issue. Our marketing guy has been on me about this for months ....

I may be wrong about this, but I don't think the proposed solution will work. My understanding is that a redirect will cause crawlers from Google and other search engines to index the page under the new target URL, not the URL from which the page is being redirected. If this is the case, there would need to be content at http://[site_name]/[section_URL_name]/ in order to make Google happy.

 

As an interim solution, we've been playing with the idea of simply creating the desired directories and then including the relevant section pages from the current issue using php. Aside from being kind of messy, this results in slower page loads and the pages don't recognize logins. It does produce Google-indexable pages at the desired URLs, but if there's a better way to do this in Campsite, I'd be grateful.

 

And again, my apologies if I've misunderstood something about how Google works!

Best,

Evan

Mugur Rus wrote:

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Hi,

I attached here a PHP script named section_relocation.php. Please copy this script to your
instance HTML directory:
    [campsite_dir]/www/[instance_name]/html.

E.g. for the default campsite install and default campsite instance this directory is:
    /usr/local/campsite/www/campsite/html

Open a shell and type the following commands:

1. cd [campsite_dir]/www/[instance_name]/html
2. ln -s section_relocation.php [section_URL_name]

Repeat step 2 for each section in your publication. Replace [section_URL_name] with the value of
the field "URL Name" from section configuration screen.

This will redirect requests like:
    http://[site_name]/[section_URL_name]/
to
    http://[site_name]/[default_pub_language]/[current_issue]/[section_URL_name]/

That9;s all.

Mugur

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Thanks for your reply, Mugur, and sorry for my mistake in the url taxonomy.
The problem is Google needs the sections URL to categorize every article,
and campsite sections have the language/issue in it (they are not 'clean'
URL's that the spider can follow).

Maybe the solution is to create some kind of alias in the VirtualHost (
httpd.conf). Or maybe to mod_rewrite the URL to put the section in the first
place and remove the rest. I don't know and I'm a bit worried.

Thanks.




2007/3/15, Mugur Rus yahoo.com" target="_blank"><mugur1973yahoo.com&gt;:
    

Hi,

The correct Campsite URL is:
- http://www.server.com/
- http://www.server.com/language/
- http://www.server.com/language/issue/
- http://www.server.com/language/issue/section/
- http://www.server.com/language/issue/section/article
depending on the what are you viewing. There IS NO date in this URL. The
shortest URL -
http://www.server.com/ - ALWAYS displays the latest published issue. So if
yesterday the latest
issue was 10 and today you published issue 11 then today
http://www.server.com/ will display issue
11.

Hope this helps,
Mugur

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Google is going to include our website in its news service. But they
        

warned
      

me about a problem with the newspaper section URL: the format
http://www.server.com/section/language/date/ will make the google spider
        

to
      

index only the actual edition of the site and not the following days.

Is there is any way to get URL's like  http://www.server.com/section1,
http://www.server.com/section2 , 
http://www.server.com/section3... that
poins to the actual edition of every section? Did someone front this
        

problem
      

before? What are the best options to solve it -redirection,
        

mod_rewrite...-?
      

Thanks.

        

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