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Originally Posted by yayvb (Post 1243299)

So does anyone know of how I could edit this plugin to incorporate member profiles?

Isn't it just a setting in the mod's options to include member profiles in the sitemap?

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(2) For versions of vBulletin 3.6.x only: Open "Schedule Manager" in the vBulletin Admin Control Panel (admincp); Remove existing scheduled task for Sitemap Generator if you have one.

I missed this part. I now have two tasks listed for this add-on. The older one can be disabled but no longer has an option to delete.

How do I get rid of it?

Never mind: deleted it using phpMyAdmin.

Addendum: ^^^ which turned out to be a bad idea. I'm not sure why this task has no description but it seems to be required for compression of the sitemap files and perhaps other functions. Reinstalled to add it back in.

It would be nice if this had something to describe its prupose.

Hello,

I have installed a new version of this mod into VB 3.6 and it appears to be working. The sitemap was generated and saved to the /data folder.

When I attempted to enter the url of the sitemap into google webmaster site (ie: http://www.myforums.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz) it states that the file can not be found.

I pasted a copy of the sitemap_index.xml.gz under the /forums directory to see if it works and it does.

Is there something I need to change in the .htaccess file ?

Thanks,

Yes. See the instructions for the mod.

Since installing this and sending Google a sitemap every day for the past month, my search result ranking (for specific terms like "bass guitar") have dropped. For the past 3+ years I've been in the top few results for 'bass guitar'. Now I'm not even on the first page anymore.

Am I out of line blaming this mod? My google PageRank has remained steady at 6/10... I'm sending Google a 4 million URL sitemap everyday - maybe it's too much data?

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Originally Posted by kontrabass (Post 1245092)

Am I out of line blaming this mod?

Yes. All this add-on does is create a sitemap. If your rankings have dropped, it's because of factors having to do with Google, not the add-on.

The fact that public PR is constant is irrelevant, especially since it may not even accurately reflect actual PR. Higher PR does, however, generally increase the frequency of spidering. Beyond that, your rankings depend on "over 100 factors" - and one of the biggest is what's happening for that specific search term on other sites also ranking for the search term.

Note that a sitemap doesn't guarantee that Googlebot will change it's crawling patterns.

Thanks for the info.

One thing I've noticed is that the 'top' url in the sitemap I generate is my forum URL "www.mysite.com/forum". But I use vbadvanced with a homepage of "www.mysite.com". vbSEO is installed in my forum directory. I have set the sitemap URL set to my root homepage (www.mysite.com). I have also enabled the vba addon. Still though the root URL is listed as www.mysite.com/forum. Google obviously knows my homepage - but is it important for the sitemap to 'get it right' ?

I don't use either vBadvanced or vBSEO (except for the sitemap add-on).

However, this may help:

How to ensure that your sitemaps can be found by ANY search engine...

Discovering Sitemaps
Brent Hands, Program Manager, Live Search

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When we first teamed up with Google and Yahoo to support sitemaps as an industry standard, it was with the express intention of driving the protocol forward. Making it into a simple, effective way to tell all search engines about the structure of your site.

Today, I'm happy to announce the latest addition to the protocol: Sitemap Autodiscovery. Autodiscovery gives siteowners the ability to easily share their sitemaps with all search engines at once, without the overhead of manually submitting them to each one. In order to share your sitemap with the crawlers at large, you simply provide the following line in your robots.txt file:

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Sitemap: <sitemap_location>

where <sitemap_location> is the complete URL of your Sitemap Index File (or your sitemap file, if you don't have an index file). This directive is independent of the user-agent. so as long as it is present in the robots.txt file, all engines will be able to find your sitemaps. I see this as an important extension to the protocol, as it removes the need to individually submit sitemaps to each engine - simply add one line to your robots.txt file, and we will find your new and updated sitemaps automatically.

Although we aren't ready to start consuming sitemaps quite yet, I encourage you to build a sitemap and add the "sitemap" directive to your robots.txt. As soon as we roll out support (before the end of the year), we will be able to start crawling your sitemap files immediately. If you want more detail on the sitemaps protocol, including autodiscovery, check out www.sitemaps.org.

This is also endorsed by Yahoo! -

Webmasters Can Now Auto-Discover With Sitemaps

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Since working with Google and Microsoft to support a single format for submission with Sitemaps, we have continued to discuss further enhancements to make it easy for webmasters to get their content to all search engines quickly.

All search crawlers recognize robots.txt, so it seemed like a good idea to use that mechanism to allow webmasters to share their Sitemaps. You agreed and encouraged us to allow robots.txt discovery of Sitemaps on our suggestion board. We took the idea to Google and Microsoft and are happy to announce today that you can now find your sitemaps in a uniform way across all participating engines. To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file:

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Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Please provide the complete URL for your Sitemap on this line. We will pick it up wherever you put it in your robots.txt file. This directive is not specific to user-agent. If you have multiple Sitemaps, you can point to your Sitemap index file on this line. Details about the Sitemaps protocol including this addition are available on the protocol website -- http://www.sitemaps.org.

If you prefer, you can continue to issue Sitemaps to Yahoo! Search by simply inputting the URL for your Sitemap and submitting. Or add feeds to a site you are already managing under 'My Sites' in Site Explorer. This also allows us to provide more feedback to you about what we are doing with the sitemap.

We're also happy to have some east coasters, Ask and IBM, announce their support for Sitemaps. The more the merrier!

Great script, thank you :)

Sorry - I didn't mean to say I had vbSEO installed - just this sitemap mod. The sitemap autodiscovery protocol is very interesting - thanks.

I get a lot of different answers reading through these threads... I'm not really concerned about using a vbadvanced addon as I only have one vba page (my homepage). But for those who's home page is not their forum index, how should be ideally go about getting our root home page listed as the sitemap's top level location?

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