XF 1.4 Sitemap XML

XenForo 1.4 includes a complete and extensible implementation of the Sitemap XML standard, allowing for optimised indexing of your site by search engines.

for like SEO and stuff...

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As always, please don't post suggestions in this thread, but rather use the appropriate suggestions forum.

 

[Liam W]

Nice, that's one addon I can uninstall with 1.4

Liam

 

[John L.]

Solid implementation. No longer need some addons for this and we can also extend our addons to support this. Love it when a good plan comes together!

 

[MattW]

Fantastic! One more add-on to be removed.

 

[Hoffi]

Great.
But with much potential.
What about an image Sitemap?
A News Sitemap for a special Set of Forums?

Did you only use Items, that are visible to guests?
What about to use here the Active User Handler, we saw a fres days ago?

You said, you split the sitemap, right? The max. Items should be 50.000 per File. Now, if I have more than one Million Posts to insert into the sitemap, how do split them? Are all Sitemaps be redone every night?

A Sitemap Splitting would be great, so that we can take a good view inside the Google Webmastertools to the Sitemaps. It would be intertesting to use user-Sitemaps, Node-Sitemaps, etc. so we have better statistics and control.

Are these Feature Requests, I should write inside the approciate forum? ^^

 

[Deebs]

How does one control which search engines have the sitemap submitted to?

 

[Marcus]

Great implementation !

 

[Mike]

How does one control which search engines have the sitemap submitted to?

There's no option. It goes to Google and Bing. You (or an add-on) can manipulate that if desired:

    protected $_sitemapPingUrls = array(
        'Google' => 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=%s',
        'Bing' => 'http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=%s'
    );

 

[IcEWoLF]

Glad to finally have this!

 

[Deebs]

There's no option. It goes to Google and Bing. You (or an add-on) can manipulate that if desired:

    protected $_sitemapPingUrls = array(
        'Google' => 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=%s',
        'Bing' => 'http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=%s'
    );

Thanks Mike.

 

[TheBigK]

Impressive!

 

[Mike]

Did you only use Items, that are visible to guests?

Yes. You can see this mentioned in the UI on the options page.

What about to use here the Active User Handler, we saw a fres days ago?

That's unrelated. This is mostly about simplifying the crawling process for a search engine and possibly exposing content that might not be explicitly linked otherwise. If the user's profile is guest viewable, it would be submitted.

You said, you split the sitemap, right? The max. Items should be 50.000 per File. Now, if I have more than one Million Posts to insert into the sitemap, how do split them? Are all Sitemaps be redone every night?

We're splitting on size right now. I will need to double check the count aspect as well to ensure we don't trip that.

Yes, the entire thing will be rebuilt. There isn't really any other way of handling situations where previously visible content disappears (permission changes, deletions, etc).

 

[Hoffi]

Thanks.

I just watched again and recognized, that you did not set the changefreq data. Has that a reason?

With this data, it is possible to configure a bit the crawler.

It can make sense, to set this for new threads to daily, and for older to monthly.

 

[Karelke]

Unrelated to this feature, I can also advice to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. It gives you a detailed report about all submitted urls.

 

[zastavra]

Nice, that's one addon I can uninstall with 1.4

Which is what we always like. I hope some time to get rid all of them.

Nice addition guys!

 

[TeflonDon]

Another addon gone.

Is it too soon to start bothering you guys about when its coming out?

 

[JulianD]

Thank you very much.

 

[Myke623]

Love how Kier's videos come to an abrupt end

"Is that it? Is there more? Wait a sec... oh no, it's over."

 

[IcEWoLF]

Love how Kier's videos come to an abrupt end

"Is that it? Is there more? Wait a sec... oh no, it's over."

Ah, I thought about the same thing from his last video and was looking for the 2nd video until I realized it was just the 1 video! @Kier

 

[nodle]

Thank you so much for this. Thanks for listening to your customers.