Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator

vBulletin Google Sitemaps by vBSEO v.2.5 - vBulletin 3.7.x
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Note: Version 2.5 replaces all previous versions of the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator, and now includes support for all the new URL types in vBulletin 3.8.x.

Overview
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Providing Google, Yahoo, Ask sitemaps is an essential step towards improving your forums.

The "vBSEO Google Sitemaps" plugin provides a solution that allows your forum to be indexed by the Google (and also Yahoo and Ask) search engines faster, more completely, more effectively, and with less bandwidth consumption.

The ultimate goal is to help you achieve more web traffic for your forum.

Originally Posted by Google's Description of GSM

https://services.google.com/inquiry/publishertools?hl=en_US
Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your site?s representation in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google. You get a smarter crawl because you can provide Google with specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently it changes.

Note: This plugin is fully compliant with vBSEO 3.x version. The current version is vBSEO 3.2. However, if you are running vBSEO, please upgrade to vBSEO 3.2 or greater before installing.

Compatibility
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Fully compatible with:

• vBulletin 3.0.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x
• vBulletin Blogs 1.0.x and 2.0.x *Optional
• vBSEO 2.x, 3.x *Optional

What does it do?
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• Auto-generates a Google XML sitemap for all of your specified forum URL types (including vBulletin Blog URLs).
• Auto-generates a Yahoo text sitemap for all of your specified forum URL types.
• Auto-notifies Google when a new sitemap is generated.
• Automatically sends you a summary of the sitemap generation via email each time it is created.
• Includes only publicly accessible forums and threads.
• Allows Google/Yahoo to find all of your forum URLs without having to spider the forum to find the links.
• Allows Google/Yahoo to find your forum URLs without having to account for query string and/or session ID information.
• Allows Google to give precedence to crawling your higher priority forum pages.
• Allows Google to give precedence to crawling your forum pages that change more frequently.
• Allows you to conserve bandwidth by more efficiently facilitating the crawling processes for GoogleBot and Yahoo Slurp.
• Is 100% compatible with the static CRUs (Content Relevant URLs) used by vBSEO-enabled forums.

How does it work?
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Whenever it is scheduled or invoked via the URL, this plugin will generate both the Google XML formatted and the Yahoo text formatted sitemaps. If you selected "Yes" to the Google auto-notification setting, Google will be notified each time the sitemap is generated. The Yahoo sitemap must be manually submitted to http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/.

• Google Sitemap files are gzipped
• Forum and thread pages are listed with pagination (i.e. all pages for each forums/thread are included in the sitemap)
• Maximum Priority is set for Sticky threads.
• Optimization for sitemap generation on large forums.

Automated Reporting Tool
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The vBSEO Sitemap includes a report tool, allowing you to track your progress. To access your reports enter the following URL:

http://www.example.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/

NOTE: Replace "http://www.example.com/forums/" with the full URL to your vB forum root.


You will be required to login by providing your "Sitemap Interface Access Password" from your vBSEO Sitemap settings in:

• vBulletin Admin CP (for 3.5.x/3.6.x/3.7.x/3.8.x users) OR
• vbseo_sitemap.php configuration file (for 3.0.x users) located in the vbseo_sitemap directory in your forum root.

Once you successfully login, you will be provided with a list of 'Useful Links'. Here are the 4 main links:

Show Reports List
The 'Show Reports List' link will display a report of each time your vBSEO Sitemap generator executed, including the (1) date, (2) run time, (3) total URLs included, and (4) and change in # of URLs included from the last generation.

Each vBSEO Sitemap generation record will include a (1) "View details" and (2) "Remove record" link. The "View Details" link shows more detailed information about the sitemap generated. The "Remove record" will permanently delete the record from your reports.

Show Sitemap Downloads Log
The 'Show Sitemap Downloads Log' link will display a report of each time your vBSEO Sitemap was downloaded by either a search engine (GoogleBot or Yahoo) or by another user agent (i.e. Web browser, etc.).

The report includes the (1) date, (2) name of sitemap file downloaded, (3) Bot, (4) IP address of the downloader, and the (5) User-agent.

Each vBSEO Sitemap download record will include a "Remove record" link which will permanently delete the record from your reports.

Run Sitemap Generator
The 'Run Sitemap Generator' link will automatically regenerate your Google and Yahoo sitemaps.

Your Forums Homepage
The 'Your Forums Homepage' link is a quick link back to your forum homepage.

Additional Links
Additional links to various other related SEO resources are also included.


Click "Install"
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Please click "Install" to show your support for this script.


Installation & Configuration for vB 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x as a Plugin
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Follow the installation/upgrade instructions provided in the docs/readme.html file.


Google Webmaster Accounts
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It is NOT required for you to have a Google Webmaster account to run the vBulletin Google Sitemaps plugin. If you decide to setup an account for testing purposes you can do so here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login?sourceid=gsm&subid=us-et-about2


Copyright & Licensing

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• vBSEO Google Sitemaps plugin is copyright protected by Crawlability Inc.
• You are free to download and install this plugin on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid vB license.
• Unauthorized distribution of any code and/or documentation, whole or in part, included here is strictly prohibited.
• In addition, the following copyright notice must be maintained.

vBSEO(TM) ? 2005-2009 Crawlability, Inc.


Revision History
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02/22/2009 - Version 2.5 Released

NEW FEATURE: Blog tags URLs are included.
NEW FEATURE: Social Group Discussion URLs are included.
NEW FEATURE: Smart Priority applied for the following URL types

1. Show Post
2. Member Profiles
3. Forum Display
4. Poll Results
5. Blog Entries
6. Member Profile Albums
7. Social Groups
8. Social Groups Discussions
9. Social Group Pictures
10. Tags
11. Blog Tags

UPDATE: Compatible with vBulletin 3.8.x. Includes the following updated settings:

1. Priority Range - Show Post
2. Priority Range - Member Profiles
3. Priority Range - Forum Display
4. Priority Range - Poll Results
5. Priority Range - Show Thread
6. Priority Range - Blog Entries
7. Priority Range - Member Profile Albums
8. Priority Range - Social Groups
9. Priority Range - Social Group Pictures
10. Priority Range - Tags

Fix: Social Group Discussion database error is fixed.

Upgrade Instructions
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(1) Follow the installation/upgrade instructions provided in the docs/readme.html file.

(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.
Note: The new task will be automatically setup when you import the XML product file.

Other vBSEO Plugins

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• vBSEO - vBulletin Search Engine Optimization
  
• vBSEO Conditional Signatures for vBulletin

vBSEO Affiliate Program
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We welcome you to join the vBSEO Affiliate Program.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by Shazz

Yes I reliaze that, my activty got cut in half! And it continues to go down since over 1k URL's died that same day

That same thing happened to me on the web site I installed it on. They said it would take a while to build back up. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and I kept it up for I think three to four months. I never received the results they said I would. In fact everything went downhill.

I ended up uninstalling it and in about a month or two I was back to where I was before the install. The only problem I had was the url rewrites. They cause havoc on my site because when users posted a url within my site they used the url rewritten link that VBSEO did and when I uninstalled it the the rewrites went away and the links would not work. That was why I said if you have any doubts at all remove it right away before it does to many rewrites because if you wait to long you will have no choice but to leave it installed. It is one of those things where if you want to remove it later you can not because it will cause to much damage.

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by attroll

That same thing happened to me on the web site I installed it on. They said it would take a while to build back up. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and I kept it up for I think three to four months. I never received the results they said I would. In fact everything went downhill.

I ended up uninstalling it and in about a month or two I was back to where I was before the install. The only problem I had was the url rewrites. They cause havoc on my site because when users posted a url within my site they used the url rewritten link that VBSEO did and when I uninstalled it the the rewrites went away and the links would not work. That was why I said if you have any doubts at all remove it right away before it does to many rewrites because if you wait to long you will have no choice but to leave it installed. It is one of those things where if you want to remove it later you can not because it will cause to much damage.

Have you posted this on vBSEO?

[iojam]

flashwave,

it looks like your subforums are private (not visible to guests) - in this case they are not included in sitemap.

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by attroll

That same thing happened to me on the web site I installed it on. They said it would take a while to build back up. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and I kept it up for I think three to four months. I never received the results they said I would. In fact everything went downhill.

I ended up uninstalling it and in about a month or two I was back to where I was before the install. The only problem I had was the url rewrites. They cause havoc on my site because when users posted a url within my site they used the url rewritten link that VBSEO did and when I uninstalled it the the rewrites went away and the links would not work. That was why I said if you have any doubts at all remove it right away before it does to many rewrites because if you wait to long you will have no choice but to leave it installed. It is one of those things where if you want to remove it later you can not because it will cause to much damage.

Can you please send me your ticket id's at vBSEO and the troubleshooting threads so i can ivestigate your case.

[Black Widow]

I have issue that i cannot explain.
Everything is working good except that the following sections are empty:
Album URLs 0 (-)
Social Group URLs 0 (-)
Tag URLs 0 (-)

I do have users with albums and they can be seen by guests.
I do have social groups and they can be seen by guests.
I do have tags and they can be seen by guests.

What can be the problem their links are not included in the sitemap?

PS:
The settings are set to enable tags, albums and social groups.

Thanks to anyone taht can help.

[veenuisthebest]

Originally Posted by Black Widow

I have issue that i cannot explain.
Everything is working good except that the following sections are empty:
Album URLs 0 (-)
Social Group URLs 0 (-)
Tag URLs 0 (-)

I do have users with albums and they can be seen by guests.
I do have social groups and they can be seen by guests.
I do have tags and they can be seen by guests.

What can be the problem their links are not included in the sitemap?

PS:
The settings are set to enable tags, albums and social groups.

Thanks to anyone taht can help.

I have had exactly the same problem. But this solved:-
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ow#post1569430

[apn3a]

is there any way for this script to create a sitemap of my entire website and not only just the forums? i already have vbseo installed in my forum. the rest of my site is another php script for classifieds that has its own SEO and its dynamic. i would like these links to be included in the sitemap of vbseo. im not a php coder to create an addon

[Hannan]

Anyone can help me to let me know how can I indexing new threads in each hour to google?! it's seems by default it's about each 24 hours
thanks

[Black Widow]

Originally Posted by veenuisthebest

I have had exactly the same problem. But this solved:-
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ow#post1569430

It indeed solved the issue.
Why this bug is not fixed in the official release?

[BucWiLd]

anyone interested in installing this for me, for a minimal fee? if so pm or email me. thanks