vBulletin Google Site Map

There are a few vBulletin Google Site maps around, but none as comprehensive as this that I have seen. This vBulletin Google site map is based on Kalius's work on discussed on his site and at Digitalpoint

FYI, the vBulletin Google Site Map modification contains at least one potential remote file include exploit. You are hereby notified that you should uninstall this modification, including the removal of the vBulletin Google Site Map PHP files from your server. The author of the modification has been notified, and the vBulletin Google Site Map thread has been moved to the Modification Graveyard forum.

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vBulletin Google site map
with ability to add extra urls
(c) by T2DMan - Michael Brandon

8Nov05+13hrsGMT - update. Added support for Yahoo Sitemap & bug fix
7Nov05+13hrsGMT - update. Thanks for your help.

I have attached 1 version with 2 different preset configs for your convenience. vBSEO and non vBSEO configs.

Configure in the vbgsitemap-config.php file.
$base=""; // "" if in root, $base="forum/"; //if in the subdirectory forum

It now works well with forum permissions, and the vBulletin's scheduled task system. I have personally installed the reviewed vBGSiteMap on a site with over 200,000 urls. Copes with the large number of urls with no problems.

The vBGSiteMap works well with vbSEO, and it lists all the old url's to allow Google to spider the old url's and so find the 301 redirects to the new, and so delete the old url's from its index.

Compared to the previous versions

• Sitemap files now written into their own directory - means this can be safely chmod 777 - thanks Sarah King
• config and class files separated out
• new help file written
• many corrections made to the code - amazing what sitting on a piece of code can do, and amazing what you can learn from personally installing on many different servers.
• Can now work on mysql versions from 3.23.58 to 5+
  

Specifications

• works with v3.03 - 3.5
• access to this file is password protected

the same password as the database via the vBulletin includes/config.php file

• creates an index file and multiple gzipped site maps to less than the maximum permitted by Google (I have in fact restricted it to 3k url's, rather than 50k as my browser takes a while to process the file when checking it)
• creates a gzipped file containing the urls for Yahoo Sitemap

• the site map files are created in the /vbgsitemap/files directory which needs to be chmod to 777

adds

• forums - with paginations of forums (excluding redirects and password protected forums)
• threads - with pagination of threads (excluding invisible threads=soft deleted, and threads inside password protected forums)
• archive forum pages with paginations
• archive versions of threads with paginations
• members

extra

• extra urls from other program types
• add a new url per line onto file.txt, and a gzipped file will be created for it, and added to the site index file.

How to install

• unzip the files
• copy the vbgsitemap folder to your root directory
• chmod the vbgsitemap/files directory to 777
• copy vbgsitemap.php to your root directory
• copy the includes/cron/vbgsitemap-cron.php file to your vbulletin includes/cron/ directory
• look over the configuration options on the /vbgsitemap/vbgsitemap-config.php file
  • $base="" or "forum/" - if your forum is the actual root, or in the forum directory etc.
  • $addthreadarchive=false; - whether you want the archive version of the threads to be added or not.
  • the rest should not need to be changed
  • change to $xtrafile="file.txt"; if you have additional urls that you want included from another package, get a list of those url's and add them to file.txt.
• Then access the /vbgsitemap/index.php file in your browser to get things happening.
• The username/password is the username/password of your database.
• Add the resulting one index file to Google sitemaps: http://www.yourdomain.com/vbgsitemap.php
• Add the other file to Yahoo sitemaps
  http://www.yourdomain.com/vbgsitemap/files/urllist.gz
• A cron job can be setup in the vbulletin scheduled tasks
  
  
  • ./includes/cron/vbgsitemap-cron.php
  • depending on the number of posts/new threads to your forum, set to run daily or weekly etc. The cron will automatically ping Google and return success/failure into the cron log.

[Zia]

hello T2Dman...

as u know we generaluser arent xpert enugh to decide our mind some times...specially when sitation is a bit complicated...
as u also know in vb.org there app. 6-8 google sitemap r available now...

Google/Yahoo Sitemap generator .
Google Sitemap Archive
and This One

what is the actual difference in between of them?

expecting an description......least it will help vb users to decide there mind -which 1 is good for Google sitemap....

as i read google faq...but everything isnt clear to me...other hand google is clear to u...
Please lets us know what to do..around the gogole sitemap....

Thnkx

[David_R]

Works great thankyou sir

[jamshed]

i dont have VBSEO but i have installed other URL REWRITE, i'ave downloaded and installed this hack, what should i do now ??

[T2DMan]

Originally Posted by jamshed

i dont have VBSEO but i have installed other URL REWRITE, i'ave downloaded and installed this hack, what should i do now ??

I hope that you have the url rewrite working great for you. So far, I have found the vbseo is the only one to do things 110% properly.

My sitemap program will need to be hacked to include the new url's - using the format of your rewritten url's - you should be able to see the formula in its code.

[T2DMan]

Originally Posted by Zia

hello T2Dman...
what is the actual difference in between of them?

I know what this one does, and I know that it works well. As to others, I have not investigated apart from the vbseo sitemap which is yet to release a newer version which includes some essential additions I have helped them with (when used in conjunction with the main vbseo rewrite).

vbgsitemap creates a list of url's in gzipped xml form that can act as a starter for Google to base its spidering on. It also creates a list of url's for yahoo.

If this is what the others do, then take your pick.

[SaN-DeeP]

I had your version installed on one of my sites, should i use the same or switch to vbseo sitemap ?

I am talking from search engine perspective..

thanks.

[SaN-DeeP]

I am sorry but i did not found anything, which hides non-required forums (private forums) . ?

[T2DMan]

There is a long awaited update of the vbseo sitemap (v1.7) that has not yet been released. The update includes all old url's into the sitemap as well as the vbseo rewritten url's.

However, if Google has seen all your old url's and cleaned them out of its index using my vbgsitemap, I would recommend the vbseo version. It has a few nice bits like the download stats that mine does not have.

[tspore]

I am getting this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '>' in /home/fourthir/public_html/vbgsitemap/index.php on line 41

Is their somewhere that I put in the DB name?
because it seems like its missing that.

[treasureman]

Thanks for this, works great with my Vbulletin.

Could this also work with other sites (non-forum)?