Sitemap

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  1. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    Do you have or generate a sitemap for your forum on a regular basis, for search engine purposes? Based on your forum platform, how do you do it? Manually or with a modification? What search engines do you submit your sitemap to?

    For vBulletin forums I use vBSEO's free sitemap generator. It works wonders and has benefited a lot, from what I can tell.
     
  2. Abomination

    Abomination Zealot

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    Not sure what you mean. Do you have a site map button on this site where we can see all the different areas?


    (I've been trying to figure out what topics should go where)
     
  3. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    Hm, I should have specified that I was referring to a sitemap for search engines. E.g., generating a sitemap and submitting it in the Google Wembaster Tools area.
     
  4. Boss

    Boss Resident Silly Man

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    Doesn't Google offer a sitemaps generator?
     
  5. Chris

    Chris Regular Member

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    I believe so, Boss.
     
  6. Boss

    Boss Resident Silly Man

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    I'm not sure if it was that or my WordPress.com generate sitemap that I inserted into WebMaster tools which I use for my silly sites, it actually helped.

    I checked in last night and entry of mine came up as Google #5 result for page 1 that was a query for "Is Jay Leno Sex Crazed?" and there was #10 for "Jay Leno Catholic Church Jokes".
     
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    I use the vbseo site map generator. It generators the site map and then my google webmaster tools grabs it every 24 hours.
     
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    Here's another vote for vbseo sitemap generator. We're pretty lucky they released it for free :)
     
  9. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    I agree. I've been using it since long before I purchased vBSEO and it's a remarkable add-on.
     
  10. Tyler

    Tyler The Badministrator

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    I am fond of the vBSEO sitemap generator as well.
     
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    Sitemaps are an simple way for site owners to tell search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling,a sitemap, or site index, is a webpage that shows all the different pages the site possesses. If the site is massive, the sitemap may provide a general guide, not to each page, but to pages under definite subject headings.
     
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    Xenforo has an add on for a sitemap which you can upload to your server for easy indexing for google and other search engines.
     
  13. Dan Hutter

    Dan Hutter aka Big Dan

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    Just FYI vBulletin now has a built in sitemap generator which runs on a cron weekly or how ever long you set it at.
     
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    I put an add on on my site that runs on Xenforo. Very benefiical for indexing pages.
     
  15. Carlos

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    I've been using vBSEO's sitemap generator on a bunch of sites. Started with 3.2.0, and ended with 3.6.0. It worked for a while with 3.2.0/3.3.0, but anything after that, traffic dropped. I even put on Relevant Replacements in places... but no cigar.

    Then I got xenForo, I discovered the magic of Jaxel's xenUtilies. :) I'm getting more traffic with CODForums with a mix of this, and social media.
     

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