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funwadi
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 Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: What to do after installation? |
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Hello dcz,
I just insalled the GYM sitemap latest version and configured it through ACP at my site www.pkvehicles.com/forum but I don't know what to do next? Can you please help me that after installing, configuring, what I have to do next ?
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HB
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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The GYM sitemap creates a sitemap and RSS feed. Sitemaps are hints for search engine crawlers. From What are Sitemaps?:
| Quote: | Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. |
You can submit your sitemap directly to a search engine, or more and more are recognizing the Sitemap: directive in robots.txt:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/forums/sitemaps.xml
Google's sitemaps tools are very helpful; they indicate when your sitemap was processed, how many URLs it accepted, and if there were any errors. It will regularly poll your sitemap for new content once you inform google about your sitemap. From my experience, googlebot queries it every other day, but that may depend on the activity level of your forum.
(I assume you know what an RSS feed does). |
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funwadi
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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Thanks for the reply HB. I know it will create Sitemaps which i have to submit in google, yahoo. I know the place to submit also but I don't know where this module is making sitemaps in my site. I tried to type http://www.pkvehicles.com/forum/sitemaps.xml but that gives lots of errors.
Do you know where is my sitemaps creating so that i can copy than do the rest work... |
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dcz
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funwadi
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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My phpBB forum is installed in folder named forum so i have edited all the 3 files and changed to $phpbb_root_path = './forum/';
Than also errors coming. Even in .htaccess i have made phpbb to forum.
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funwadi
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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| Oh, Ohk. Cool. Now http://www.pkvehicles.com/forum/sitemaps.xml is working. Now what to do? How to get the sitemap from my site. Because submission in Yahoo, Google I know. |
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funwadi
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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So now i should save this -http://www.example.com/forums/sitemaps.xml
XML file and submit it into Google, Yahoo Sitemaps ? or anything else i have to do ? |
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funwadi
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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| Okay, Cool. 1 last question Sir that at my site www.pkvehicles.com/forum/sitemaps.xml the links generated now are very less. So if i submit it now, it won't make any good effect. How to make add all my pages into that sitemap and submit it heavy file.. Any way ? |
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dcz
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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Well, this is you sitemapIndex, it's linking to all available sitemaps on your forum, meaning one sitemap per public (and not empty) forum, since we only care about public content here, we don't really want to provide Google with links it cannot crawl.
The actual sitemaps links are the links inside the sitemapIndex, and yes bots will follow them all, the sitemapindex is just your sitemaps sitemap basically.
Try turning xslt styling in acp, you'll get click-able links just like here : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/sitemaps.xml try following the links, they are all sitemaps and they list all of this forum public content.
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funwadi
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:01 am Post subject: Re: What to do after installation? |
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Okay Sir. I will try to do what you said  |
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