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Posted May 26, 200816 yr Question for the developers here. I had a quick search but can't see if it's been addressed already. I know you are putting together a friendly URL system and possibly lifting some ideas from the website in my signature field... but something just occurred to me. Will you be including a sitemap generator in the new IPB? If so, it's crucial that it has seamless integration with the friendly URL system. Any comments?
May 26, 200816 yr I've mentioned it a couple of times and agree it would be a logical feature to have :) +1
May 26, 200816 yr If it is made a feature, the URLs in the sitemap.xml MUST match whatever is in the FURL.
May 26, 200816 yr +1Question for the developers here. I had a quick search but can't see if it's been addressed already. I know you are putting together a friendly URL system and possibly lifting some ideas from the website in my signature field... but something just occurred to me. Will you be including a sitemap generator in the new IPB? If so, it's crucial that it has seamless integration with the friendly URL system. Any comments? Just curious why it wouldn't when that's primarily the purpose of a sitemap tool? If I'm guessing right you mean it should work both ways if the FURL's are enabled or not enabled just like CSEO?If it is made a feature, the URLs in the sitemap.xml MUST match whatever is in the FURL.
May 26, 200816 yr Will you be including a sitemap generator in the new IPB? If so, it's crucial that it has seamless integration with the friendly URL system. Any comments? Yes, this would be very usefull. I made sitemap for my forum manually this included about 1500 links from my forum.
May 26, 200816 yr Another vote to add this. It's a pain to try and find a good free sitemap generator...
May 27, 200816 yr +1 Just curious why it wouldn't when that's primarily the purpose of a sitemap tool? If I'm guessing right you mean it should work both ways if the FURL's are enabled or not enabled just like CSEO? It's obvious isn't it?... A sitemap generator that creates dynamic links for the search engines when you have user/engine friendly links set up would be a duplicate content catastrophe. I can't say this strongly enough... 301 headers that point to the new FURLs MUST be set up on the old dynamic links.
May 27, 200816 yr I currently use CSEO and because IPS has never incorporated one in the past I can honestly say I never seen this occur before. bfarber gave reviews of the CSEO and I'm sure if this was an issue it would be one that he would try to avoid repeating, but as I said I've never seen the issue brought up before. I'm behind your idea even though IPS confirmed many months ago that this will be a feature in the 3.0 series and also confirmed it again in the IPS Blog "lightly" just recently in the past few weeks. However the blog didn't go into details or mention a sitemap. I'm just voting +1 to join in the overall support for this to make sure it gets done :) Maybe if they see this topic, then they may consider posting a new blog entry to give us insight about the planned system?
May 27, 200816 yr More information will be released about each new feature in 3.0 over time. As you can see we're staggering them and talking about things little by little. It will probably be a while before we get to the friendly url stuff. ;)
May 27, 200816 yr A nice addition to this would be the option to have it scan for non forum based pages on the same domain so that your site will also be included in the map.
May 27, 200816 yr A nice addition to this would be the option to have it scan for non forum based pages on the same domain so that your site will also be included in the map. So you propose we code a website crawler into IPB? Personally I think that would extend IPB quite a ways beyond a forum software...
May 27, 200816 yr So you propose we code a website crawler into IPB? Personally I think that would extend IPB quite a ways beyond a forum software... I agree with you. That's just over the top and way too many parameters to consider cause pretty much you will have to weed out manually what you don't want in the sitemap usually after it's ran which creates more work. Just keep things limited to IPB then that way it can be controlled by settings that dictate what areas & sections to include via ACP. If people want to webcrawl their site, there is plenty of free/paid software on the market to do that and when using them you can just exclude any software that has sitemap capability already built in :)
May 28, 200816 yr So you propose we code a website crawler into IPB? Personally I think that would extend IPB quite a ways beyond a forum software... When put like that I guess you are right. I hadn't put much thought into how a forum site map would be generated.
October 29, 200816 yr More information will be released about each new feature in 3.0 over time. As you can see we're staggering them and talking about things little by little. It will probably be a while before we get to the friendly url stuff. ;) So now that friendly URL's have been announced, what's the status on a sitemap generator?
October 29, 200816 yr +100 for sitemap we need sitemap generator more than FURL! and who could have FURL without sitemap generator then!
October 29, 200816 yr So now that friendly URL's have been announced, what's the status on a sitemap generator?http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=275841 Specifically the part that says "if we haven't announced it, either we are not authorized to or it will not be included".+100 for sitemap we need sitemap generator more than FURL! and who could have FURL without sitemap generator then! Uh...everyone? :unsure: Nobody requires a sitemap to use friendly urls (and vice versa).
October 29, 200816 yr I try this mod, but surprisingly my page rank reduced from 4 to 3 :| when I removed that, my page rank back to 4 again.
October 29, 200816 yr google will make you a sitemap by using its site tools stuff. go there. That takes a lot of set-up and configuration, plus shell access. it's definitely not easy. Well... hopefully someone develops a plug-in for this. It's rather important.
October 30, 200816 yr Uh...everyone? :unsure: Nobody requires a sitemap to use friendly urls (and vice versa). :P nope, I meant, those who use FURL always use sitemap at the same time or even many of ppl who use sitemap don't use FURL actually yet sitemap seems to go before FURL often :)
October 30, 200816 yr I try this mod, but surprisingly my page rank reduced from 4 to 3 :| when I removed that, my page rank back to 4 again. is lower better...
October 30, 200816 yr is lower better... I think higher is better, but from what I have heard and understand of page rank, his statement isn't making any sense to me. PageRank should be, as I understand it, the rank your page has based solely on the number of backlinks to it. A sitemap in no way affects the number of backlinks to the page, thus would not affect page rank.
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