I have 40++ forums, I have been checking this out in-depth, what I found was all my forums but one was not listed in Google. What in the heck? 40 plus forums with thousands of posts not in google or have been submitted.. They were there years ago... Years ago my site went from hero to zero and I ost everything, now I know why, sitemap wasn't working and still years later is not.

The only forum listed in google out of 40 plus forums

 

Here's an example of another category with 40k plus posts

 

But wait, there's more... NO Posts out of the 40k are even listed in google in this same forum

 

I have other forums and posts when fetching the urls where it says Not found in sitemap... ? Why... 

Years I have been listening to many here say they've lost a lot, now I see why,, the site map is not working.. This is major upsetting, I went from making a living off my site to losing it all over this.

@bfarber any solutions here?

 

 

 

 

Are the listed topics accessible to guests? Please keep in mind that the sitemap contains only guest accessible content.

I would suggest to submit a ticket so that we can take a look at this.

5 minutes ago, DesignzShop said:

 Years ago my site went from hero to zero and I ost everything, now I know why, sitemap wasn't working and still years later is not.

That’s impossible. A “non-working” sitemap does not not remove pages from the index, nor is a sitemap even required. It’s just an optional tool to speed up bot discovery instead of letting Google find everything by crawling links it finds. 

Since you are hiding your site from the screenshot, the only way to resolve something would be through a ticket. There isn’t anything we could check here based on screenshots alone. 

 

Of course they are available to guests, of course they are.. this has been going on for years..

3 hours ago, opentype said:

Since you are hiding your site from the screenshot

 

Are the urls in the sitemap ?

2 hours ago, jesuralem said:

well, i have a little idea about the site address 🙂  :

Are the urls in the sitemap ?

No, they are not, that's my point My issue is not with my urls not in google but why they are not in my site map according to google. Let me clarify that. Ticket submitted.

Do you have the gallery installed? I've just identified and fixed a bug in the sitemap which affected everybody with the gallery app being installed. A patch for this should be available soon.

20 hours ago, DesignzShop said:

No, they are not, that's my point My issue is not with my urls not in google but why they are not in my site map according to google. Let me clarify that. Ticket submitted.

 

@DesignzShop, I can see all your topics in your sitemap. Have you just generated it again?

7 hours ago, Sonya* said:

@DesignzShop, I can see all your topics in your sitemap. Have you just generated it again?

Yes, Lindy done the rebuild last night, now I have another issue I'm about to report. I hope the map keeps building on new topics now, I hope. The next issue has to do with pages, I have pages taking on forum seo information for some reason. My index page for example has my cymbal forum seo info, if I change the cymbal forum through the live editor it then changes the index page from pages seo to that.. .. Weird stuff going on

Here's a screen of a forum in my meta tags area that has nothing in it for some reason. That's the cymbals forum. When I change that seo in the live editor it changes my sites index pages seo to the cymbals forums seo. You can see the empty area at the bottom.

There is nothing wrong with you meta tags. They are not empty. If you edit the meta tags on your screen, you will see it. And if you open the URLs listed above and see the source of the page. There are description and keywords meta tags set.

7 hours ago, Sonya* said:

There is nothing wrong with you meta tags. They are not empty. If you edit the meta tags on your screen, you will see it. And if you open the URLs listed above and see the source of the page. There are description and keywords meta tags set.

Hello Sonya, the index page is now reading correctly because I manually had to fill out some information in the index page meta tag entry in the acp after the live meta tag editor left out vital information, like the page name for example in the record. IPB is looking into that now as to why the record had information left out when it should of been created by the live meta tag editor. Because the page name was left out, for some reason the page in question would use another meta tag entry. Hope that explains this issue better.

On 11/14/2019 at 4:18 AM, Daniel F said:

Do you have the gallery installed? I've just identified and fixed a bug in the sitemap which affected everybody with the gallery app being installed. A patch for this should be available soon.

 

When will this patch be out?

11 hours ago, Fast Lane! said:

When will this patch be out?

4.4.9 (there is no public expected release date yet)

8 hours ago, bfarber said:

4.4.9 (there is no public expected release date yet)

Does this make a huge issue for large sites with a gallery?

12 hours ago, bfarber said:

4.4.9 (there is no public expected release date yet)

What's the issue?

Sitemaps are not "required" so to say anything related to the site map makes a "huge issue" is probably going to be pretty rare.

If you have Gallery installed, it is possible the sitemap task may stall. This is fixed in the next release.

oh! just stuck with this on my site. some how 5000 URL from my forum are not listed in the sitemap.

18 hours ago, bfarber said:

Sitemaps are not "required" so to say anything related to the site map makes a "huge issue" is probably going to be pretty rare.

If you have Gallery installed, it is possible the sitemap task may stall. This is fixed in the next release.

is this bug in 4.4.8 or in 4.4.7 also? I was just going to upgrade

Yes

You can manually rebuild your sitemap as a temporary solution.

1 hour ago, bfarber said:

Yes

You can manually rebuild your sitemap as a temporary solution.

via tasks?

1 hour ago, Sergey_SV said:

via tasks?

AdminCP > System > Search Engine Optimization > "Rebuild Sitemap" button at the top right.

On 11/20/2019 at 6:10 PM, bfarber said:

AdminCP > System > Search Engine Optimization > "Rebuild Sitemap" button at the top right.

thanks. that helped

On 11/20/2019 at 5:52 AM, bfarber said:

Yes

You can manually rebuild your sitemap as a temporary solution.

Can we please get a patch?  

4 hours ago, Fast Lane! said:

Can we please get a patch?  

The issue is resolved in our 4.4.9 release, which was already released as a beta and will be out very soon.