vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator for vBulletin 3.6.x, 3.5.x & 3.0.x

vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator - vBulletin 3.5.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.

[hst]

This plugin is putting forums and threads in the sitemap that are not open to the public... for example the moderators forums. Adding forum IDs "43 44" to the "excluded forums list" doesn't help. I also tried "f43 f44" and the posts are still showing up in the sitemap.

vbulletin 4.6.8 with vbseo installed.

[viper357]

Hi there, please help.

I have been running this for a while now and after setting up a new site with vB I realised I was not getting email reports anymore from my first site.

I checked on the reports list and my last report was on the 29 October 2007, so I tried to manually run the scheduled task and came up with a server error, so I upgraded to the latest version of the sitemap generator but still the same thing, everytime I try to run the Scheduled task manually I get a server error (attached)

However, if I go to vBSEO Sitemap Reports page and click on the link that says Run Sitemap Generator, that works.

Any idea what could be wrong? I am running 3.6.5.

Thanks

[viper357]

Any help with my problem above?

[iojam]

Please install the latest version (v.2.1): https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=144730

[viper357]

Oh hell, I'm posting in the wrong thread, sorry.

[Thomas P]

Why doesn't Yahoo Notify succeed at our site?

I've set the option to Yes, the logs state 'No' - why?

Thanks,

[Direct Vision]

Does this work with ZointSEO?

[BuRaCh]

Originally Posted by Direct Vision

Does this work with ZointSEO?

yes working

[Humayun1]

Hello i am using this mod and it successfully create and submit sitemaps to google and yahoo. I never tried creating sitemap my self but today i click on the to Run the Sitemap Generator and it displayed an error message after quering all forums . Can you please tell me what is the cause of this problem.

[homepage] [2,291.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [2,291.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 1, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,291.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 2, total threads: 5, pages: 1 [2,291.7Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 4, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [2,291.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 3, total threads: 6, pages: 1 [2,291.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 16, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,292.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 17, total threads: 10, pages: 1 [2,292.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 18, total threads: 2, pages: 1 [2,292.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 5, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,292.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 6, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [2,292.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 15, total threads: 3, pages: 1 [2,292.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 7, total threads: 7, pages: 1 [2,292.5Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 8, total threads: 6, pages: 1 [2,292.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 9, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,292.7Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 21, total threads: 38, pages: 2 [2,292.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 20, total threads: 5, pages: 1 [2,292.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 10, total threads: 3, pages: 1 [2,293.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 11, total threads: 2, pages: 1 [2,293.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 12, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,293.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 13, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [2,293.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 14, total threads: 2, pages: 1 [2,293.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] showthread [2,293.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[archive homepage] [2,433.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay archived [2,433.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] showthread archived [2,439.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] member [2,497.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] polls [2,570.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] blogs [2,570.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0s)]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function vbseo_any_url() in /home/humayun/public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 424

Also i can see some addons option at the bottom of vBSEO Sitemap Settings; which says that "Set the addon module names here, one name per line. The modules files are located in vbseo_sitemap/addons/ folder." Do i need to mention the name of these files or i have to include .php extension also. I am using DownloadsII module with my forum; will it create site map for all my software listings using this feature.

Thanks

[hotshot]

Why not include MSN's LIVE.com on your ping? They have a sitemap program now! Can someone tell me how to modify the script do do this? Should be pretty easy!


http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=[Your sitemap web address]