Google needs a three-digit number (3 digits at least) in the URL to index a page in Google News (http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68323).

With eZ Publish 3.10 the only way I found to do it is to add an ezidentifier attribute in the class and set the URL alias name pattern with this attribute.

It's a shame to be compelled to add an attribute just to be indexed in google news (we have to take care of the space consumption and efficiency of the DB).

It could be good to make it possible to add the node_id in the url using a dedicated tag in the URL alias name pattern.

For example in the class "article", URL alias pattern could be:

<short_title|title>-<node_id>

It will produce an URL like:

http://mysite.com/news/google-news-with-ezpublish-350