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wildfiction
Junior Member

167 Posts

Posted - 07 July 2005 : 17:02:52

quote:
Originally posted by Podge

quote:
I was under the impression that search engines penalized you for duplicate content on your site so I thought that the printer friendly pages might be considered duplicate content?

So was I but its obviously not the case...

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wildfiction
Junior Member

167 Posts

Posted - 07 July 2005 : 17:04:14

quote:
Originally posted by Shaggy

Yes, A_TOPICS AND A_REPLY

Thanks Shaggy<

wildfiction
Junior Member

167 Posts

Posted - 08 July 2005 : 03:04:02

quote:
Originally posted by Podge

I just updated the text file to include the forum links.

Hi Podge: The Google sitemap site web is reporting an invalid date on 4 out of 5 of my forums.

I have to go out right now but will look at it in more detail when I return. Just thought I'd let you know in case you or anyone else are also getting the same from Google with your latest sitemap.xmp.asp file.

Thanks<

Podge
Support Moderator

Ireland
3775 Posts

Posted - 08 July 2005 : 03:18:17

Funny. Mine were downloaded this morning and they're ok.

Where is your sitemap? (or post an extract of the sitemap)<

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Edited by - Podge on 08 July 2005 03:28:51

wildfiction
Junior Member

167 Posts

Posted - 08 July 2005 : 07:09:38

Okay I've found the reason for the error but not the solution yet.

The following is output as the date:

<lastmod>--T::+00:00</lastmod>

under the <loc>http://.../forum.asp?FORUM_ID=XX</loc>

if the forum is empty and has no posts/topics in it.

I suggest adding a new forum to one of your forums and then have a look at the output. Let me know if you need more info...

Thanks for all your help Podge.<

wildfiction
Junior Member

167 Posts

Posted - 08 July 2005 : 08:00:19

At Line 158 I stuck in:

if Forum_LAST_POST <> null then

with an end if a few lines down but that has just eliminated all the forums...
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Podge
Support Moderator

Ireland
3775 Posts

Posted - 08 July 2005 : 08:27:36

It would be something like this (not tested)

xml = xml & "<url>"
xml = xml & "<loc>" & strForumURL & "forum.asp?FORUM_ID=" & Forum_ID & "</loc>"

if Forum_LAST_POST <> null then
xml = xml & "<lastmod>"& ISO8601Date(Forum_LAST_POST) &"</lastmod>"
else
xml = xml & "<lastmod>"& member8601Date(now(), 1) &"</lastmod>"
end if

xml = xml & "<changefreq>daily</changefreq>"
xml = xml & "</url>" & vbNewLine

<

wildfiction
Junior Member

167 Posts

Posted - 08 July 2005 : 08:49:59

That seems to work - thanks.<

Astralis
Senior Member

USA
1218 Posts

Posted - 15 July 2005 : 03:24:31

Google indexed mine in 15 minutes. I'll be looking forward to seeing if it brings in some new people. Thanks for sharing!<

Podge
Support Moderator

Ireland
3775 Posts

Posted - 15 July 2005 : 03:32:51

There are no guarantees at this stage that Google will index any extra pages of your forum. It may download the sitemap but not crawl your forum.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google-sitemaps?hl=en<

Astralis
Senior Member

USA
1218 Posts

Posted - 15 July 2005 : 04:11:16

It's in beta so it's okay. I think this will work great in tandem with the Topic Maker Mod if I can get that to work.<

gelliott
Junior Member

USA
268 Posts

Posted - 17 July 2005 : 20:56:02

No one has mentioned it yet, so I thought I'd toss this out - since I didn't want my root folder to be script and thus publically-writable, I added the below two lines to the top of my asp file - the result is that when I hit the file it generates a download automatically, and I just re-upload it... just in case some of you would like using this approach. I'm sure several of you have thought of this already...

Response.AddHeader "content-type", "text/xml"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition","attachment; filename=sitemap.xml"

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glinted
New Member

54 Posts

Posted - 25 July 2005 : 00:40:01

Has anyone noticed any changes in pages been indexed after they submitted the sitemap?

I have one forum and three websites that i added sitemaps for google but have not noticed any changes although I know there is no gaurentee this does improve listings I was mainly curious. Like does it help that much or what effect it has, how long till the changes took place etc?<

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Edited by - glinted on 26 July 2005 09:39:39

jeffery
Junior Member

USA
176 Posts

Posted - 27 July 2005 : 20:04:23

So where is this code? Did I miss it somewhere?<

www.thomasforum.com

Edited by - jeffery on 27 July 2005 20:19:33

Podge
Support Moderator

Ireland
3775 Posts

Posted - 27 July 2005 : 20:27:33

Made some changes today. I'll have it back up tomorrow.<