GYM Sitemaps & RSS module

SeO · Last edited by SeO on Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:14 pm; edited 2 times in total

Google Yahoo MSN Sitemaps & RSS

Title : Google Yahoo MSN Sitemaps & RSS

Author :

www.phpbb-seo.com

Description :

United Sitemaps

phpBB3

Version : v2.0.B3

Installation Level

Installation Time :

phpBB :

Author's Notes :

Google Sitemaps (United Sitemaps

phpBB

This module will generate several types of outputs :

United Sitemaps (Google Sitemaps) :

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This mod will create a SitemapIndex, listing all the created Sitemaps.
They will be usable by the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines.
Sitemaps are 100% valid, sitemaps 0.9 protocol.
They can be styled using XSL-Transform style-sheets (configurable ACP).

WARNING

Google Sitemaps

Yahoo

sitemaps.org submit procedure

Sitemaps Created :

The sitemap forum module :

The TXT module :

The XML module :

RSS 2.0 Feeds:

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RSS feeds are 100% valid RSS 2.0.
They can be styled using XSL-Transform style-sheets (configurable ACP).

You can as well register you main Feeds at Yahoo, like rss.php (or rss.xml).
Forums RSS Feeds can notify yahoo automatically using the Yahoo! Notifications API.
You'd have to apply for a Yahoo AppiD.
Please note that Yahoo will not allow the use of "&" in submited RSS feeds URLs. This mean you won't be able to submit feeds with "&" in their URL.
This only concern few feeds, and only if you do not use URL rewriting.

phpBB authorisations:

RSS Feeds Created :

The RSS forum module :

Each feed is available in three configurable versions :

Advanced content filtering :

Links :
You may choose here to either activate or not links used in posts.
If deactivated, links will be outputted as part of the content but won't be clickable.
BBcodes :
You can deactivate BBcode parsing or filter them (tags and/or content).
The format is simple :
Example :
Smileys :
You may choose here to either parse the smileys or not in content.
Emails :
You may choose here to either parse the Emails or not in content.
Profiles :
You may choose here to either parse the Profiles as links or not in content.
Digest :
You can select between three different method to limit the outputted messages content in feeds : By sentences, by words and by characters.
None will break word, select the one you feel more comfortable with.

Common features for all the module :

Cache :

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A complete cache system configurable from ACP.
All the maps (sitemaps, rss and urllist.txt) are entirely saved in a folder.
When a cached file is up to date and available, the module will just send it as is to the browser without further processing, making the output very, very fast, comparable to a direct physical file access.
Each type of cache, corresponding to each type of listings, can be configured separately. You can decide for each one how the cache will be updated : auto (each time the cache expires) or manual (files delete from ACP).

Benchmark : (11834 URLs)

Without Gunz-zip compression :
First page load : Cache is being build

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This means that the module is building a 11834 URLs list in 5.41892s, and that the cache file is saved in 0.00864s (2 119 631 octets)(the file being sent to the browser right after saving).
The output ended 6.93087s after it was requested.

Second load :

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The first line being itself cached, to recall how hard it was to build up such a long list before sending it.
This is to be compared to the 0.00256 s here needed to start the output Very Happy

Then, file transfer is relatively long, but the file is 2mo and if we take into account the large number of URLs it's pretty fast.

With Gunz-zip :
Unfortunately, there are no stats available for this output, the function used to read and send a gunzipped file makes it impossible it seems.
But once activated, our 2mo becomes 48 ko !!
And as the file is sent to the browser as is, it's only a matter to sen a 48ko file to list 11834 URLs
So no need to search too long to figure out it is even a lot more faster, with a lot fewer server resources spent.
A work comparable to sending a 48ko image to list only 11834 URLs.

You can compete for the biggest sitemap on this thread : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/gym-sitemaps-rss/beat-the-record-vt2903.html

SQL Cycles and perf settings :

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All major queries are separated into several cycles, configurable in acp, for all types of listings.
Default limit settings should be good for most cases.
The principle is simple, to list 10 000 URLs we cannot query for 10 000 items at a time, the module will perform several.
The idea is to limit the number of items per query as well as the number of query themselves.
You should no go over 30 queries per sitemaps, and if your server is not able to build up a 10 000 URLs list in a reasonable time, no need to go for so much.
We here would deal with the last 10 000 topic to have received an answer in a given forum, not all forums, so we can conclude topics older than that would be quite old.
In general, there is no need to go above 5000 URLs per sitemaps.

Pleas not as well that it would be totally useless to list thousands of URLs in RSS feeds, even if the module can do it.
RSS feeds are not meant to be used as sitemaps.

Additionnaly you can enjoy the phpBB SQL EXPLAIN feature in the same condition as everywhere in phpBB : advanced debug activated in config.php and loggued as admin with the explain=1 paramter in the mod's URLs (?explain=1 or &explain=1).

URL Rewriting :

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You can switch mod rewrite type in ACP for all listings, phpBB SEO mod rewrite 0.2.x are auto detected.
Settings for other mod rewrite standards (Webmedic's rewrite mod, able2know rewrite mod, GoogleBB Links) can now be done easily, simply editing a file.

XSLt styling :

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XML output (sitemaps and RSS) can be styled using XSL-Transform style-sheets (configurable ACP).
You can as well, if the required style file are available, use your phpBB CSS style-sheet to style the HTML output build with the XSLt. The sitemaps and RSS feed style would then use your configured colors and other CSS properties set for your forum.

Modularity :

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The modular architecture initiated in previous version is now complete. All modules can now have theire own ACP without any code change.

Overriding :

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Some redundant settings throughout all the module levels (URL rewriting, caching, limits etc ...) can be overridden from the main level (GYM) to the output types (Sitemap, RSS ...) and even up to the module level (RSS forum, Sitemap Forum ...).
You can for example activate once and for all caching for all modules but set url rewriting at the output type level and or the module level (eg url rewriting on for RSS but not for sitemaps, or only for the forum sitemaps but not for the XML one and so on).

Small limitation :

If Gun-zip is activated in phpBB, it will be so in the module, it is though possible to use gun-zip compression on the module if it's turned off in phpBB.

Extra :

Languages :

French support thread

Demo :

RSS Feeds :
- The main feed :
- Forum feeds :
- The channel feeds :
Google Sitemaps :
- SitemapIndex :
- Per forum sitemap :
- forums sitemap :
- forums global announces :

Download :

Google Yahoo MSN Sitemaps & RSS V2.0.B3

SeO · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: GYM Sitemaps & RSS module

To obtain support for this mod, please use the GYM sitemaps & RSS forum.

You can post new threads and reply to existing ones.

We are releasing this as Beta, which means that the mod does not have all the planned features implemented yet (such as HTML sitemaps), but it was thoroughly tested and validated by the phpBB SEO Team as it is now.

Please read the announcement thread to find out more about the project status.

Click on the Watch this thread link to be notified of updates for this mod.

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