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.

[trancetopia]

Works like a charm, thanks. Clicks install.

[Michaeel]

works great!

anyone knows how i can change the background/font color in the map area?
the font color on my forum is a kind of yellow/white (#ffffcc), hard to read any text on a white background :/

[organik81]

I did the required steps; uploaded & configured files, added a schelduled task & ran..

Then I run http://www.mudomain.com//vbgsitemap/index.php ; input the db username & password and clicked to "Create vBulletin Google Sitemap" >> redirected to "http://vbgsitemap/index.php" But "the page cannot be open" ... ?

[Cedric_FP]

did you do all the chmods?

[organik81]

Originally Posted by Cedric_FP

did you do all the chmods?

Yes surely.. :ermm:

[T2DMan]

Check your configurations file. Looks like you have some path issues that need to be sorted?

Can you look at any of the threads that are on your forum? I tried on a few, and got the signup page. These threads wont appear on the sitemap, since the public can't view them.

[T2DMan]

Check out the newest release from Crawlability/vBSEO - their version of a Google/Yahoo Site Map generator. It is great for vbseo and non vbseo, and pre and post vbulletin 3.5.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100435

Once they have the bugs fixed, I would recommend that you use theirs instead of mine :disappointed:. I have been a small part of the development of their product, enough for them to include me on the credits of it.

Its got a few more bells and whistles than my product.

[organik81]

Originally Posted by T2DMan

Check your configurations file. Looks like you have some path issues that need to be sorted?

The vbgsitemap-config.php is true..

$base="351/"; (the forum files are in public_html/351/ path; and the vbgsitemap folder is in public_html; and the vbgsitemap.php is in the /public_html/ folder)

Can you look at any of the threads that are on your forum? I tried on a few, and got the signup page. These threads wont appear on the sitemap, since the public can't view them.

I turned on the threads contents for unregistered users too to be able to view.. But still have the same problem.. :ermm:

[T2DMan]

Originally Posted by 007

How does this compare to: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93980 ??

I have that one installed but I am always interested in as much SEO as possible of course.

The mod you mention tries to achieve SEO as well as doing the sitemap. Personally, I don't like the methods that are used in that mod. Personally I prefer the vBSEO product for the SEO side of things. I like being able to keep to the spirit of what vBulletin is all about, and let the search engines see what the user would see, and not try to cloak pages. The users see the actual threads, so lets SEO the actual threads rather than use the archive version.

vBulletin 3.5 has even added the option to have the sitemap/archive go through to the actual threads (at my insistence) rather than the previous additional version of them.

[konstance]

Does anyone know... when I add URL's to file.txt, do I add all of the parameters per .php page, or do I just include the .php page? for example:

http://www.mysite.com/home.php?id=3

Do I just include

http://www.mysite.com/home.php

OR every page with every parameter, like "id=3", "id=4", etc.

Thanks in advance for any help