r4506 - trunk/docs/user
daigle at ecoinformatics.org
daigle at ecoinformatics.org
Tue Nov 4 11:34:57 PST 2008
Author: daigle
Date: 2008-11-04 11:34:57 -0800 (Tue, 04 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 4506
Added:
trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html
Modified:
trunk/docs/user/default.css
trunk/docs/user/metacattour.html
trunk/docs/user/pagedreturn.html
trunk/docs/user/unimplem.html
Log:
Added user documentation for sitemap registration.
Modified: trunk/docs/user/default.css
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/user/default.css 2008-11-04 00:09:04 UTC (rev 4505)
+++ trunk/docs/user/default.css 2008-11-04 19:34:57 UTC (rev 4506)
@@ -204,18 +204,17 @@
background: #ccccff;
vertical-align: baseline;
color: black;
- font-size: 1.5em;
+ font-size: 1.25em;
font-weight: bold;
margin-left: 0.25em;
margin-right: 0.25em;
- margin-top: .5em;
- padding: .5em;
+ margin-top: 1em;
}
.header2 {
font-size: 1.25em;
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: .5em;
- padding-top: 1em;
+ padding-top: 1em;
}
.header3 {
font-size: 1em;
@@ -241,7 +240,7 @@
margin-top: .5em;
margin-bottom: .5em;
}.toc1 {
- font-size: 1.5em;
+ font-size: 1.3em;
font-weight: bold;
margin-left: 20px;
}
Modified: trunk/docs/user/metacattour.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/user/metacattour.html 2008-11-04 00:09:04 UTC (rev 4505)
+++ trunk/docs/user/metacattour.html 2008-11-04 19:34:57 UTC (rev 4506)
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
<li> <a href="./lsid_authority.html">LSID Support</a></li>
<li> <a href="./spatial_option.html">Metacat Spatial Option</a></li>
<li> <a href="./pagedreturn.html">Paged Query Results</a></li>
+ <li> <a href="./sitemaps.html">Search Engine Sitemaps</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
Modified: trunk/docs/user/pagedreturn.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/user/pagedreturn.html 2008-11-04 00:09:04 UTC (rev 4505)
+++ trunk/docs/user/pagedreturn.html 2008-11-04 19:34:57 UTC (rev 4506)
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Paged Query Returns</p></td>
<td class="tablehead" colspan="2" align="right">
<a href="./spatial_option.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
- <a href="./unimplem.html">Next</a>
+ <a href="./sitemaps.html">Next</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
<br>
<a href="./spatial_option.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
- <a href="./unimplem.html">Next</a>
+ <a href="./sitemaps.html">Next</a>
</BODY>
Added: trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html (rev 0)
+++ trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html 2008-11-04 19:34:57 UTC (rev 4506)
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+<!--
+ * sitemaps.html
+ *
+ * Authors: Michael Daigle
+ * Copyright: 2008 Regents of the University of California and the
+ * National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
+ * For Details: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
+ * Created: 2008 November 4
+ * Version:
+ * File Info: '$ '
+ *
+ *
+-->
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>Search Engine Sitemaps</TITLE>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./default.css">
+</HEAD>
+<BODY>
+ <table width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Search Engine Sitemaps</p></td>
+ <td class="tablehead" colspan="2" align="right">
+ <a href="./pagedreturn.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
+ <a href="./unimplem.html">Next</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
+ <div class="toc1"><a href="#Intro">About Sitemaps</a></div>
+ <div class="toc2"><a href="#Overview">Overview</a></div>
+ <div class="toc2"><a href="#Implementation">Metacat Implementation</a></div>
+ <div class="toc1"><a href="#SubmitSitemap">Submit Your Sitemap</a></div>
+ <div class="toc2"><a href="#GoogleRegister">Register With Google</a></div>
+ <div class="toc2"><a href="#GoogleReRegister">Re-Register With Google</a></div>
+
+ <a name="Intro"></a><div class="header1">About Sitemaps</div>
+ <a name="Overview"></a><div class="header2">Overview</div>
+ <p>Sitemaps are xml files that tell search engines which sites you would like to
+ be available in a web search. The scope of this discussion encompasses Google
+ web searches only.</p>
+
+ <p>The site map file contains metadata about the available sites on your server. For
+ information on the sitemap protocol, please refer to
+ <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html"> the Google
+ page on using the sitemap protocol</a>. The sitemap file must be available via the
+ web on your server.</p>
+
+ <p>Metacat generates the sitemap file automatically on a daily basis (more on this in
+ the next section). You will need to manually register the sitemap file with Google in
+ order for it to take effect. We discuss that in the
+ <a href="#SubmitSitemap">Submit Your Sitemap</a> section.</p>
+
+ <a name="Implementation"></a><div class="header2">Metacat Implementation</div>
+ <p>Metacat automatically generates sitemap files for all public documents in
+ your catalog. You can view the sitemap files at:
+ <div class="code"><webapps_dir>/sitemaps</div>
+ You should see one or more files in this directory that look like
+ <div class="code">metacat<X>.xml</div>
+ Metacat limits the number of entries to 25,000 (Google's limit is 50,000). So for
+ every group of 25,000 public documents in Metacat, you will see additional sitemap
+ files where <X> increments for each file.</p>
+
+ <p>You should verify that your sitemap files are available to the web by browsing
+ to
+ <div class="code"><your_web_context>/sitemaps/metacat<X>.xml</div>
+ for instance
+ <div class="code">your.server.org/knb/sitemaps/metacat1.xml</div></p>
+
+ <a name="SubmitSitemap"></a><div class="header1">Submit Your Sitemap</div>
+ <a name="GoogleRegister"></a><div class="header2">Register With Google</div>
+ <p>You will need to register for a Google Webmaster Tools account in order to
+ register your sitemaps. A good description of how to do this is on
+ <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575&topic=8496">
+ the Google help site</a>. Follow the instructions there to get your sitemaps registered.</p>
+
+ <p>One note: you should register the full url path to your sitemap files, including
+ the http:// (or https://) headers.</p>
+
+ <a name="GoogleReRegister"></a><div class="header2">Re-Register With Google</div>
+ <p>You will need to periodically revisit the Google Webmaster Tools utility to
+ refresh your sitemap registration as you add more publicly accessible data to
+ Metacat.</p>
+ <p>A future enhancement to Metacat will automatically refresh the sitemap
+ registration when necessary, although you will still need to do the initial
+ registration manually.</p>
+
+ <br>
+ <a href="./pagedreturn.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
+ <a href="./unimplem.html">Next</a>
+ </ul>
+
+
+</BODY>
+</HTML>
Property changes on: trunk/docs/user/sitemaps.html
___________________________________________________________________
Name: svn:executable
+ *
Modified: trunk/docs/user/unimplem.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/user/unimplem.html 2008-11-04 00:09:04 UTC (rev 4505)
+++ trunk/docs/user/unimplem.html 2008-11-04 19:34:57 UTC (rev 4506)
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
<tr>
<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Wishlist</p></td>
<td class="tablehead" colspan="2" align="right">
- <a href="./pagedreturn.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a>
+ <a href="./sitemaps.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
</UL>
<br>
- <a href="./pagedreturn.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a>
+ <a href="./sitemaps.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a>
</BODY>
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