Version: 2.41, by T2DMan
Developer Last Online: Jun 2018
Version: 3.5.1
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Released: 06-29-2005
Last Update: 11-07-2005
Installs: 109
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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.
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.
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What are the url's of your pages??? What has Google cached? What do you want Google to cache? What do you want shown on the serps. If the url includes strings as part of the url, then that is the url of that page.
In vBulletin standard, all the threads are url strings, and that is what you want cached by Google, therefore in the sitemap. Same for any other page.
when i run the creator it pings with no errors, however all the links it creates are missing the forums directory.
/vbgsitemap/files/
but it should be
/forums/vbgsitemap/files/
check the config file and make sure that you have your forum directory in there:
$base="forums/"; // "" if in root, $base="forum/"; //if in the subdirectory forum
The vbgsitemap is off the root directory so that not only can you add vbulletin url's, but your other url's. The vbgsitemap.php needs to be in the root, so that Google can add url's off your root as well. vbgsitemap.php accesses the actual files in the /vbgsitemap/files/ directory
Google has got a site map system whereby you tell it the url's of your website, and it is then able to find them easier. You can diret it to look at the url's less often than they would normally (ie if content doesnt change too often) and so save bandwidth, or for google to check more frequently if content is often changing.
It is especially good if you have lots of new threads being created. The sitemap will show the create date of those threads and google should find them faster than otherwise.
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