1.4 Sitemap improvement

[Hoffi]

Some improvements for the sitemaps:

• Include attachments that are visible to guests as a new option inside the acp beneath nodes, threads and users.
• for users, include the profile picture inside the sitemap
• add the crawling frequency
• expand the threads and nodes with all pages

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
  xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
<url>
   <loc>http://example.com/beispiel.html</loc>
 
   <image:image>
     <image:loc>http://example.com/bild.jpg</image:loc>
 
   </image:image>
   <image:image>
     <image:loc>http://example.com/foto.jpg</image:loc>
 
   </image:image>
</url>
</urlset>

 

[Karelke]

Perhaps adding a prioroty as well. Threads should be crawled more often than user pages and nodes.

 

[Hoffi]

Yes, priority is missing, too.

 

[ibnesayeed]

1. Will this generate every page of a thread, or just the base thread URL?

Base only.

An option to choose if we want to include all pages in the sitemap please.

 

[Chris D]

The "problem" for image sitemaps is that image sitemaps are not part of the official sitemaps spec and I assume XenForo have followed the official spec pretty closely.

I do agree it would be a useful addition though.

In theory quite a trivial thing to add, too. If not in the core, then certainly add-able by an add-on, I would have thought.

 

[Hoffi]

Google himself: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636

Even Matt Cutts himself told us, that images a very useful.

Bing also recognize this.

 

[Hoffi]

Added one - really important - point that I forgot.

• expand the threads and nodes with all pages

Actually only the first forum page is listet. Thats weird. Why not all Pages?

 

[Chris D]

Google himself: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636

Even Matt Cutts himself told us, that images a very useful.

Bing also recognize this.

Bing do not support the Image sitemaps.

They will correctly parse a sitemap that contains image tags, but those tags will be ignored.

 

[Hoffi]

OK, let me correct myself.

BING accept them.

But Bing is only at 9% in Germany and Google at 90%. So, really. Bing is not my favorite system, but Google does. So I want to put most url's with content I can do to google.

 

[Jeremy]

@Hoffi, to make tracking of your suggestions easier, please keep it to one suggestion per thread.

 

[Hoffi]

@Hoffi, to make tracking of your suggestions easier, please keep it to one suggestion per thread.

You mention, that I should create four threads? If yes, okay I'll do it.

 

[Jeremy]

Yes, as explained here:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/guide-to-suggestions.2285/