silverstripe-googlesitemaps/README.md

# Google Sitemaps Module

## Maintainer Contact

 * Will Rossiter (Nickname: wrossiter, willr) <will@silverstripe.com>

## Requirements

 * SilverStripe 2.4

## Documentation

SilverStripe provides support for the Google Sitemaps XML system, enabling 
Google and other search engines to see all pages on your site. This helps 
your SilverStripe website rank well in search engines, and to encourage the 
information on your site to be discovered by Google quickly.

Therefore, all Silverstripe websites contain a special controller which can 
be visited: http://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps for info on this format 

In addition, whenever you publish a new or republish an existing page, 
SilverStripe automatically informs Google of the change, encouraging a Google 
to take notice. If you install the SilverStripe Google Analytics module, you 
can see if Google has updated your page as a result.

By default, SilverStripe informs Google that the importance of a page depends 
on its position of in the sitemap. "Top level" pages are most important, and 
the deeper a page is nested, the less important it is. (For each level, 
Importance drops from 1.0, to 0.9, to 0.8, and so on, until 0.1 is reached).

In the CMS, in the "Content/GoogleSitemap" tab, you can set the page importance 
manually, including requesting to have the page excluded from the google sitemap.

### Setup automatic pinging

	GoogleSitemap::enable_google_notificaton();