Hi guys,

I know the google DCZ mod works like a charm. But what about yahoo?

I found this mod for yahoo: Yahoo Submit Your Site MOD

Has anybody used it? I also read that you can have it work with webmedic rewrite..

I'm going to install it and see how it goes

I ok I installed the mod. It works fine w/o the webmedic modification to the mod.

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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare make_url_friendly() (previously declared in public_html/admin/admin_yahoo_search.php:53) in /includes/functions.php on line 173

I have declared it twice! Any ideas of how to get around this?

admin_yahoo_search.php

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//SEO TOLKIT BEGIN
function make_url_friendly($url)
{

   $url = trim($url);

   $url = strtolower($url);

functions.php

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// webmedic keyword
function make_url_friendly($url)
{
   
   $url = strtolower($url);

Well first, if you are using the phpBB SEO advanced mod rewrite, you should use format_url() instead of make_url_friendly(). It will basically do the same job, in a slightly lighter way, since here we do not have filter all of the outputted html code any more.

Then, the fact that make_url_friendly stays in function.php makes me think you are using the last version I upgraded. So in this case, you don't have to declare it in any other file, since they should all include function.php.

Juts try to get rid of the make_url_friendly() code in admin_yahoo_search.php.

Then, I have tested this mod and it works great, but actually, there are many limitations to the standard for now, since you can maintain just one file, it's merely impossible to list a huge amount of links.

The Google sitemap here allow you to list up to 50 000 URL per sitemaps, and you can have many sitemaps for a site, which can themselfves be grouped in a sitemapIndex. And the thing is Yahoo!Slurp is visiting my Google sitemaps, so I assume it knows enough XML to find those URL being listed in there

Post an html link to your Google sitemap file in your web sites, and you will even see msn bot around as well as many others

I think that in the end, there will be some kind of common standard put together out of all those sitemaps experiences, and I bet it won't be very different from the Google one Or at least all bots will (if they aren't already, actually I wonder how they could not understand standards such as the Google sitemap one) totally understand all different standards.

But for sure, here, more is more, so it is good to use.

And I also have plans to add support for more search engine sitemap standards in the future.

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I deleted the part in the admin_yahoo_search and it worked great! Thanks

"Post an html link to your Google sitemap file in your web sites, and you will even see msn bot around as well as many others"

Should I just add a link to the overall_footer?

You could, but I think it is a bit too much, those do not need PR, just visits, and not too much, since those are not ment to be visited more than once every day or two by bots, and not all of them.

So a link on an indexed page is enough I think, look at your server's logs you will see them, and will be able to see who are the one following the links in the sitemapIndex file.

Actually, it could be great to have more clues about bots behaviour here, to know exactly what's happening (which bot is following the links in the sitemapIndex and thus actually viewing the url lists).

I'll soon start a test procedure on this, it will be the first one of this site, but many will follow, as we don't want anything but facts here

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I have this MOD installed. but now im wondering if it will be 'useless' once I install the SEO MOD to my forum.

Not at all

It's just that the yahoo standard does not allow as much as the Google sitemap system.

But here, more is more and it's very easy to have the yahoo sitemap mod outputting rewrited url, so, more is more ... it's just that in this case I am not sure how much more

For Google it is obvious it helps a lot, must be the same with yahoo, but since we cannot output as many links at a time, I am not sure in the end the yahoo sitemap system is doing a better job than a regular html site map.

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One thing about it is that they do accept RSS feeds to be submited. so then maybe its good in a way that it searches for pages that it hasnt crawled already from a site. or so it says it does. about every few days or so I like to submit the mx google sitemap page.

Peter77 wrote:about every few days or so I like to submit the mx google sitemap page.

Actually, I am not sure this helps this much

How do I modify this yahoo mod to return rewritten url's in the urllist.txt?

TIA,

For the advanced mod rewrite :

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admin/admin_yahoo_search.php

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         $sql = 'SELECT topic_id

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         $sql = 'SELECT topic_id, topic_title

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         while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) )
         {
                 $protocol = ( $config['cookie_secure'] ) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
                 $server_name = $config['server_name'];
                 $server_port = ( $config['server_port'] == '80' ) ? '' : ':' . $config['server_port'];
                 $script_path = $config['script_path'];
            $viewtopic_url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $row['topic_id'];
            
            $out .= $protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_path . $viewtopic_url .  "\r\n";
         }

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         $protocol = ( $config['cookie_secure'] ) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
         $server_name = $config['server_name'];
         $server_port = ( $config['server_port'] == '80' ) ? '' : ':' . $config['server_port'];
         $script_path = $config['script_path'];
         while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) )
         {
            $topic_title = ( count($orig_word) ) ? preg_replace($orig_word, $replacement_word, $row['topic_title']) : $row['topic_title'];
            //$viewtopic_url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $row['topic_id'];
            
            $out .= $protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_path . format_url($topic_title) . '-vt' . $row['topic_id'] . '.html' .  "\r\n";
         }

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      $sql = 'SELECT topic_id

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      $sql = 'SELECT topic_id, topic_title

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      while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) )
      {
              $protocol = ( $config['cookie_secure'] ) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
              $server_name = $config['server_name'];
              $server_port = ( $config['server_port'] == '80' ) ? '' : ':' . $config['server_port'];
              $script_path = $config['script_path'];
         $viewtopic_url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $row['topic_id'];
            
         $out .= $protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_path . $viewtopic_url .  "\r\n";
      }

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      $protocol = ( $config['cookie_secure'] ) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
      $server_name = $config['server_name'];
      $server_port = ( $config['server_port'] == '80' ) ? '' : ':' . $config['server_port'];
      $script_path = $config['script_path'];
      while ( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) )
      {
         $topic_title = ( count($orig_word) ) ? preg_replace($orig_word, $replacement_word, $row['topic_title']) : $row['topic_title'];
         //$viewtopic_url = "viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $row['topic_id'];
            
         $out .= $protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_path . format_url($topic_title) . '-vt' . $row['topic_id'] . '.html' .  "\r\n";
      }

For the mixed and simple mod rewrite, additionally do this two times :

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format_url($topic_title) . '-vt' . $row['topic_id'] . '.html' .  "\r\n";

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'topic' . $row['topic_id'] . '.html' .  "\r\n";

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Brilliant - working well.

Thank you very much dc for your help. I've now changed robots.txt as well to block the old format (even though all the other search engines have indexed me in the old format - I guess they'll re-index soon enough).

Pottsy

You're welcome

I plan to implement yahoo listing in my next version of mx Google sitemap

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I do the changes above and works great .


Thanks for the huge helping im getting in this board. I will collaborate making a SEO introductory guide for newbies and posting here when i finish to SEO my forum.

By the way. Any idea of how can i extract all the urls in one of my google sitemaps in order to paste them into the yahoo urllist.txt??

I have installed one CMS called subdreamer, and one mod that produces google standards sitemaps for my page (forum not included) in one static page. So i want to include in urllist.txt the urls of my portal that can be detected by yahoo submit mod because are out of the forum folder. There are in my main folders.

Here is the file
http://www.tupincho.net/sitemapCMS.xml