Fixed Sitemaps ping is deprecated

[Tom McIntyre]

Under what circumstances would one want to have a sitemap.xml file?

We recently ran afoul of the robots.txt file having errors that made our content disappear from Google. That has been fixed and we are recovering quickly, but if there is utility in having a sitemap.xml file, is there code for populating it? I am hoping to avoid having to read another hundred or so pages to understand this.

 

[bzcomputers]

Under what circumstances would one want to have a sitemap.xml file?

We recently ran afoul of the robots.txt file having errors that made our content disappear from Google. That has been fixed and we are recovering quickly, but if there is utility in having a sitemap.xml file, is there code for populating it? I am hoping to avoid having to read another hundred or so pages to understand this.

By default, in XenForo 2.x, sitemap.php and sitemap.xml should render the exact same content.

 

[Tom McIntyre]

So instead of putting sitemap.xml in my robots.txt file, I can reference sitemap.php so long as that file exists in the domain root?

 

[Jeremy P]

XenForo automatically builds a sitemap by default (if it's been disabled, you can enable it in the control panel). It will be available at sitemap.php, or sitemap.xml if you have friendly URLs enabled.