Overview
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Note: This plugin is fully vBSEO 2.2.0 compliant. If you are running vBSEO, please upgrade to vBSEO 2.2.0 or greater before installing.

A Google sitemap is basically one or more XML formatted files containing a list of your forum URLs - along with indicators such as priority and frequency for each URL.

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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.

Priority indicates how important the page is relative to your other pages, while frequency indicates how often the page is expected to change its content.

The site map is retrieved from the root level of your website by Google (and by Yahoo for the text formatted version).

By transmitting your sitemap directly to Google, you enable GoogleBot to crawl your website more effectively and efficiently.

You automatically inform Google of all of the pages you want crawled as well as which pages are more important (higher priority) and which should be crawled more often (higher frequency).

For more information on Google Sitemaps:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html

Yahoo also supports a basic text sitemap format with one URL per line. The Yahoo sitemap must be manually submitted to:

http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/

Note: Google and Yahoo sitemaps are particularly important for sites with dynamic URLs containing query string and/or session ID information. Search engines are known to more effectively crawl static URLs.

More of your forum pages indexed generally leads to more website visitors allowing you to grow your forum and generate increased revenues from affiliate programs and/or ad sales such as the Google Adsense program.

Providing Google and Yahoo sitemaps is an essential step towards improving your forums.

The "vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator" plugin provides a solution that allows your forum to be indexed faster, more completely, more effectively, and with less bandwidth consumption.


What does it do?
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Auto-generates a Google XML sitemap for all of your specified forum URL types.
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 publically 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.

Download:

http://rapidshare.de/files/9331367/vbseo_sitemap-1-5.zip.html

Greez recon.rr.nu

Lots of thanks! great program

Отличная программа, давно такую искал - теперь дело осталось за Гуглом

а как у него с русскими буквами в названиях тем?

Originally Posted by fill747

а как у него с русскими буквами в названиях тем?

Никак - он текст не трогает, создает в архиве xml файл с ссылками на темы и разделы который гуглу надо сканировать. Правда я не совсем понял механизм как гугл должен добратся до этих файлов если он закрывает к ним доступ через хтаксесс. Кстати удивительно быстро сканирует форум, у меня порядка 30 тыс ссылок за полторы минуты сделал.

Here is a copy of VBSEO_SITEMAP 1.6

ZIPPED Version : http://rapidshare.de/files/13800460/1-6-pametis_oesbv.zip.html

RARED Version  : http://rapidshare.de/files/13800516/1-6-pametis_oesbv.rar.html

Originally Posted by fill747

а как у него с русскими буквами в названиях тем?

Вот-вот.. у меня такая же трабла.

В именах генерируемых HTML-файлов получается абро-кадабра..

А вобще насколько я понял русские названия должны переделываться в транслит....

Originally Posted by Rem

Правда я не совсем понял механизм как гугл должен добратся до этих файлов если он закрывает к ним доступ через хтаксесс.

Угумс, а в другом хтаксессе прописан реврайт.
Гугл забирает файл по ссылке www.site.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Мало того, что с русскими буквами косяк, так еще и получается кривая ссылка на профиль юзера.

Originally Posted by Dr.Lectar

Мало того, что с русскими буквами косяк, так еще и получается кривая ссылка на профиль юзера.

Ну пользователей можно по номеру в url выводить, только дополнительно появилась проблема с аутентификацией.. редиректит без сохранения оной иногда(по крайней мере у меня).

Не подскажите кто-нибудь, как для изменённых адресов в vbseo robots.txt было бы верно прописать?

VbSeo 2.40

Info:
vBSEO has emerged as the definitive vBulletin Search Engine Optimization Enhancement. We understand that SEO is a moving target - and building a successful online community goes far beyond any one strategy. That is why vBSEO is provided as a flexible platform that enables you to easily manage your vBulletin On-Site SEO.

We encourage vBulletin admins to join us in a discussion aimed at improving SEO for our forums. Collaborating and contributing new, advanced, and (perhaps) even controversial ideas creates a synergy that will allow us to stay abreast of the trends in vBulletin SEO.

http://rapidshare.de/files/16329343/vBSEO.v2.4.0.rar

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