eZ Publish Search Engine Optimization

A well-designed sitemap can be very useful for search engine optimization. This special page consists of links and keywords that describe the website. By default, eZ Publish automatically generates sitemaps in a simple and SEO-attractive form:

<h1>Folder A sitemap</h1>
 <h2><a href="folder_a/folder_x">Folder X</a></h2>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="folder_a/folder_x/article_1">Article 1</a></li>
 <li><a href="folder_a/folder_x/article_2">Article 2</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h2><a href="folder_a/folder_y">Folder Y</a></h2>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="folder_a/folder_y/article_3">Article 3</a></li>
 <li><a href="folder_a/folder_y/article_4">Article 4</a></li>
 <li><a href="folder_a/folder_y/article_5">Article 5</a></li>
 </ul>

Additionally, you can create a sitemap for every part of the site by setting the number of the content node in the URI. The following URI generates a map of the whole website root node (usually assigned ID "2"):

http://www.example.com/content/view/sitemap/2

Section sitemap

In dynamically growing information websites and portals, Sections provide a layer of content organization. In the simplest case, a section is a subtree of the information structure.

For example, eZ.no as a corporate site consists of pages about the company and its products and services. In addition, there are other complex sections designed for specific audiences, such as the eZ partners area and the eZ community pages. These sections need specially designed portal pages to link to all of the section's components, such as forums, news, blogs, articles, etc.

For such a large sections, dedicated sitemaps can be used. eZ Publish enables developers to generate sitemaps for any subtree, for example:

http://www.example.com/content/view/sitemap/x

...where "x" is the node id.

Sitemaps for sections can be useful for new site visitors and for search engine robots because they are simple navigation maps, consisting of clean lists of headers and links without additional components such as design, pictures and text.

Google sitemap

To optimize Google search rankings, you can build Google Sitemaps. These are similar to standard sitemaps but are expressed in a specially defined XML format. These documents are used by the Google indexer to simplify the indexing process. To generate a Google sitemap, use the dedicated eZ Publish templates that conforms with Google's XML format.