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[Official mod] Sitemap
ziycon:
--- Quote from: Norv on November 07, 2011, 06:48:38 AM ---Can you folks - those who would like to see this feature in SMF - please point out to me what does your sitemap contain, or what do you think it will usually contain?
--- Quote from: ziycon on October 06, 2011, 05:27:19 AM ---I agree, I would like to see a sitemap as standard functionality, maybe not to link all topics(maybe optional if this is added) but at minimum its would list all boards and child boards that are visible to guests. Also maybe add a variable to the board create/modify page so that you can give that board a priority for the sitemap.
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This is the board index page though.
I admit I don't see why a sitemap should belong in SMF - meaning in a forum package, although I can understand why it is good to have a fully grown site (with a forum and other pages or even software). It is indeed good to have when you have a number of additional pages. Am I missing something?
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I understand that this is only information on the board index but it might be a case that someone might only want/require the boards to be in the sitemap, if they have thousands of topics that can make for a very big sitemap, depending on how many times a search engine downloads or crawls the sitemap it could take a big lump of bandwidth.
I kinda understand why people might not want the sitemap due to it only listing forum pages and if the forum was integrated to a site it wouldn't accommodate for these outside pages.
mr.Curiosity:
I agree, nice :)
InfoStrides:
I support the sitemap to be default feature of SMF but can be enable or disable from admin panel. If you need it, enable it; if you don't need, then disable it. Simple!
bestfriendavinash:
Agree... sitemap should be there but the URL of sitemap should be SEO friendly..
Current sitemap url is <Forum Url/>index.php?action=sitemap;xml which is acceptable for google.. but not for aks and bing
ask and bing only accept in <Forum URL>/sitemap.xml url for sitemap... hope you have got me
garry383:
An xml sitemap is very useful. A normal sitemap is about as useful as a flag as a parachute.
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