Google News-related properties

Required properties

If you have configured the Sitemap plug-in to use the Google News sitemap extension then you must include the following properties in your publication's feature resource:

com.escenic.sitemap.publication.name: This property must be set to the name of the publication as it appears in Google News.
com.escenic.sitemap.publication.language: This property must be set to the correct ISO-639 code for the language of your publication. You can use either the two letter or three letter codes (either en or eng is acceptable for English, for example).

Chinese is a special case: you must use either zh-cn for Simplified Chinese or zh-tw for Traditional Chinese.

Optional properties

If you have configured the Sitemap plug-in to use the Google News sitemap extension then the following property will be used if set:

com.escenic.sitemap.keywords.tagStructure

This property is optional. You can use it to specify which of your Escenic tag structures are to be used for including keywords in Google News sitemap entries.

Suppose for example that you have three tag structures: a geographical tag tree called places.my.com,2013, a general tag tree called topics.my.com,2013 and a persons tag tree called persons.my.com,2013. If you specify a space delimited list of tag structures as below:

com.escenic.sitemap.keywords.tagStructure=tag:places.my.com,2013 tag:persons.my.com,2013

then only tags belonging to places.my.com,2013 and persons.my.com,2013 will be included as keywords in the sitemap. A content item that is tagged with "Bergen" (from places.my.com,2013) and "weather" (from topics.my.com,2013) will appear in the sitemap with the keyword entry:

<news:keywords>Bergen</news:keywords>

The "weather" keyword is omitted because it does not belong to one of the specified tag structures.

If you do not specify this property then all tags associated with content items are included as keywords in the sitemap.

For detailed information about Google News extension elements, see http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74288&topic=10078&ctx=topic.