ADKGamers

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This resource will display a widget to members confirm their email address by clicking in a button. The widget will go away when they confirm the email address and will reappear after a number of days configured by the admin on the resource settings. Admin can still choose which user groups will be able to use the resource.
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I feel a new conspiracy theory is just being developed. Perfect for your site!  

What's New in Version 1.0.2:
New feature:
Added actions to search: you will be able to know what your members are searching/looking for and thus make decisions regarding your content.

@Brian    ?   
 
 

10 days might be fine depending on how often Google visits your site.
Again, the frequency that Google visits your site has nothing to do with the sitemap.
In 4.3, we have added the lastmod timestamp, and added a button to rebuild your index from scratch.
Also, just double check your forum and topic permissions. Remember, if a guest cannot see the page, then Google cannot either.

I think we need to be mindful the the sitemap is just one way that Google discovers and crawls links.
What goes in the sitemap isn't a hard rule that Google must only check out those links, so there's little point in adding too many restrictions here and there because it'll be mostly pointless. You'll submit fewer links, but Google will still pull up the ones you didn't add.
I did add a setting for profiles, because of the huge number of 'dead' profiles that stuff up the sitemap, which is just a waste.

What may or may not be in the sitemap doesn't solve why Google is shedding indexed pages.
That said, when using the new search console, the figures are totally different.
We have 92k indexed pages
We have about 400k pages that Google has either 'discovered' or 'crawled but not indexed' due to its own algorithms. These are 301 redirect links (this is OK, it has no reason to store these) and empty profiles which have almost zero content.
But it's important to realise that Google is not punishing us, it is just working harder to index content that it thinks others will find useful, and "Johnny@11" who registered in 2011 and has never posted doesn't count any more.
 
 

Good list but I am not for excluding topics with no responses. Most of the time the first post contains all the initial topic content and should index well as long as members aren't starting topics with a very low word count.

I think an account with 0 post can be exclude from the sitemap.
Other options :
-  allow to exclude topic with 0 response 
- add last-mod to all sitemap content ( try to run the google crawl on new content )
-  allow to exclude / noindex particular topic / profile / page 
- generate a robots.txt with the good values 
-  permit to refresh more frequently sitemap for the last added content 
 I've using IPboard since 2004 if my old topics are not frequently generated to the sitemap it's not a problem, but for my last topics / blogs / profiles , i would like a refresh more often. I have more than 1000 sitemap files, with a 15 min refresh, my new topics are in the sitemap each 10days
- generate error on the sitemap  
I have old entry, old blog, old content, .... my sitemap was not updated since 2 month because their 10 blogs entry witch are linked to a deleted blog. No error but the sitemap was not updated ($e->last_message empty  but not $e) 

Just so you know, we're watching this topic and looking at our own stats to build a better picture.
The facts we know:
1) Almost every site I've got access to (via friends, etc) have seen a massive drop since June of indexed pages. This is not exclusive to Invision Community powered sites. I've seen the same with Wordpress.
2) Google slipped in an update in 2017 to target several things, one of these things is poor backlinks and other poor quality links. It looks like this means that user profiles that have no content have been dropped from the index along with links that 301. That is fine. You don't want Google storing the 301 link, as long as it stores the real link (and it does seem to).
3) A drop in what is indexed doesn't actually correlate to the health of the site. We've seen our index volume drop, but clicks, engagement and discovery slightly increase (probably due to better quality results?)
As always, Google say nothing so we're left guessing.
We will look at stopping user profiles from being submitted. For example, we see nearly 380k links as 'discovered' but Google has chosen to not index them. Looking through the list, it's all user profiles.
This means:
1) Sitemaps are working fine. There's no massive problem with them that correlates with a drop in indexed pages
2) The cornerstones of good SEO are taken care of in the software
3) Google is being weird and mysterious as always.
What can we do in the short term?
1) Stop sending profiles with no content to the sitemap. They are now ignored and Google appears to be dropping them from its indexes
2) Add in nofollow on links that 301 so Google doesn't bother 'discovering' them at all.

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

I have asked some people that use other forum software about their index, and here are two examples:


So, this must be something with Invision, because in other sites using other bulletin software, its rising and not declining.

@Matt can IPS release the code that you used to add the timestamp, specifically into the topic sitemaps so we don't need to wait for an update?
Also, if you are running gallery, there is no image sitemap and only image page urls with no time stamp either. See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636?hl=en

This app works side by side with commerce.it even logs refs in both apps  
theres only an issue with the commerce guest purchase feature, they won’t be able to set a ref while the checkout 

This isn't actually the plugin causing the issue.  There's a patch that you'll need to apply via the "Support" option in your forums, and then "something isn't working".  Once you run that it'll give you a notification of the patch.  And that leaderboard bug is a part of that patch.  
Hope this helps!

AHHH Great ! Because I created tickets last week and Support told me nothing more that I can "rebuild".
Thanks a lot.
 

This isn't actually the plugin causing the issue.  There's a patch that you'll need to apply via the "Support" option in your forums, and then "something isn't working".  Once you run that it'll give you a notification of the patch.  And that leaderboard bug is a part of that patch.  
Hope this helps!

We've added the timestamp into the sitemap and we're looking to add a tool to quickly rebuild the sitemap on demand.

Do you need to track the activities of specific members on your forum? Track Members will allow you to track the steps of any member as they interface with your forum and it is highly configurable to include settings for time frame and a multitude of trackable actions (Account Actions, Profile Actions, Messenger Actions, Content Actions). It also provides settings for automatic member tracking for members being warned as well as new members.
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HI @Fosters, hope you had a great New Years!
Just stopping in to see how the image field mapping was coming along.

What's New in Version 1.0.1:
New Feature:
Added support to Forums app as a new setting in the category A topic will be created when a new application is submitted This topic will be udpated everytime the application is edit to reflex the changes Fix:
Changed FURL to avoid blank screen error @cristian romero garcia, update your install with newest version. Will fix the blank issue error.
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I received two PMs with similar doubts so i added this note to the file description and will add it here too:
Permission: NO ONE except staff (with proper permisison) will be able to view/read or know who are the applicants. All that regular members will know is the number of users who applied to it.

About This File
Are you looking for staff? Developers? Designers? Or anything else? This application will help admins/moderators to find people to help in their boards.
Here's a quick rundown of some of the features for this resource:
Extra Fields Module to add Positions on ACP (moderator, webdesigner, developer, etc) Ability to automatically move the "winner" member to a chosen group (you inform the group when you're adding the application record) Ability to restrict the application by: Content count, Reputation points/likes, Number of days as member, Minimum age and groups Ability to inform how many places the position has. Example: you can create an application record to "hire" 3 moderators. Module on ModeratorCP to view all pending records from all applications Compatible with most important features from IPS 4.2 (Recommended Comments, Content Message, Reactions, Member History, Richer Embeds, etc.) Fully integrated to the framework: tag system, follow system, report system, search system, activity streams, share Links, etc. Moderator actions on applications, comments and reviews Moderator permission to approve/reject applications Ability to create RSS feeds from member applications Etc.  

On the road map and likely in the first quarter of 2018.

OK thx, I'm working on this right now, so I was curios if something else didn't work to fix it before the next release:)

I noticed the same problem. It's making it hard for me to use supergrid with this mod. looking forward to the fix.
Thank you

I think one way of doing it is for each paid file in downloads to be automatically treated as a commerce product. So, then when a user adds a download file to the cart it goes in the Commerce cart. Then check out as normal. Because as far as I know, currently, the only link Downloads has with Commerce is associated files.