Zoints Tags URL's For vBSEO Sitemaps

**Code Monkey** · 01-27-2007, 11:16 PM

This is just a little file to add to your vBSEO Sitemap if you have Zoints tags.

Just upload it to your sitemap addons directory and add it in your sitemap settings. It will add the tags page as well as each individual tag page.

This now works with any zoints url structure setting.

Enjoy.

**G_Man** · 01-27-2007, 11:21 PM

Wow. Very Nice. Thanks CM!!!

**Brandon Sheley** · 01-28-2007, 12:58 PM

SWEET !!

thanks man

**Code Monkey** · 01-28-2007, 01:41 PM

It's now updated to work with all zoints url structures

imported_DChapman · 01-28-2007, 01:44 PM

Great stuff, thanks for releasing this!

**Code Monkey** · 01-28-2007, 01:53 PM

Thank you and welcome to vBulletin Modder

**G_Man** · 01-28-2007, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

It's now updated to work with all zoints url structures

So, to update all I should need to do is overwrite the php file on in my add-ons folder, correct?

Oh... and a question. How can we know this is working? I mean I am sure it is, but will we see a larger sitemap generated, etc?

**Code Monkey** · 01-28-2007, 04:45 PM

Well, you will see a ton of new links added to your sitemap. For this site it was about 700 pages added. For another I had it was 2000. It really depends on how many unique tags you have. But as new tags are added so will new tag pages. They would all end up in google over time anyway, this just speeds up the process.

Lizard King · 01-28-2007, 11:20 PM

Google is already eating tags like crazy. With this addon anyone can increase your chances pretty easy. Thanks for this

**Code Monkey** · 01-28-2007, 11:34 PM

Depending on how many tags you have it will add a lot of pages to your sitemap.

The big increase can also trigger a deaper crawl for a bit as google get's the message that there is a ton of new content.

**jw00dy** · 02-01-2007, 08:01 AM

Great Mod!

So do I understand this correctly that it will actually add tag to my Zoints Tagging system for me?

I have not installed it yet, as I'm not sure I want them automatically added, or did I miss the boat on this.

Lizard King · 02-02-2007, 04:54 AM

You should change

Code:

vbseo_add_url($base_url,1, '', 'daily');

to

Code:

vbseo_add_url($base_url, '1', 'daily');

Also

Code:

vbseo_add_url($tag_url,0.7, '', 'weekly');

to

Code:

vbseo_add_url($tag_url, '0.7', 'weekly');

in order to prevent getting error in sitemaps.

**Code Monkey** · 02-02-2007, 06:31 AM

Um, no. There needs to be 4 values.

**Code Monkey** · 02-02-2007, 06:32 AM

actually, changing '' to 0 would give you a last mod date.

**Code Monkey** · 02-02-2007, 06:59 AM

You can also go into your config and set 'tpl_update' => time() and it will put the current time as last updated. Though, that will do it for any others that have no setting for time.

**jw00dy** · 02-02-2007, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jw00dy

Great Mod!

So do I understand this correctly that it will actually add tag to my Zoints Tagging system for me?

I have not installed it yet, as I'm not sure I want them automatically added, or did I miss the boat on this.

I'm sorry, does someone know the answer to this?

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-03-2007, 07:08 PM

no, this doesn't add tags.. it will add all the url's that the thread tagging system has to the vbseo sitemap
like this url
http://vbmodder.com/forums/tags/sitemaps/

**jw00dy** · 02-03-2007, 11:02 PM

Gracias, that's all I wanted to know.

Mike_W · 02-05-2007, 12:28 PM

I don't think this is working for me. I added it, but it didn't increase the pages added to the sitemap.

I uploaded the file and added the following in the add-ons area in my control panel

vb_seo_zoints_tag_sm

Did I miss something?

EDIT****

Looks like it is working now. I ran the sitemap from the scheduled tasks and it added about 2,000 urls. When I ran it externally from the web it didn't seem to be working.

Thanks for this mod!

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-05-2007, 03:34 PM

good to hear its working for everyone

Code Monkey, do you think you can make an addon like this for vblogetin ?
I can let you look at the files on my site if you need.

Matzefn1 · 03-09-2007, 09:25 AM

I just uploaded the file root/vbseo_sitemap/addons
Where can I add it in my sitemap settings?

**G_Man** · 03-09-2007, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matzefn1

I just uploaded the file root/vbseo_sitemap/addons
Where can I add it in my sitemap settings?

There is a box for add-on toward the bottom of the sitemap settings in your AdminCP. You put the filename in there.

**Code Monkey** · 03-09-2007, 10:07 PM

Um, he only has one post so he could not have installed it legally.

**G_Man** · 03-10-2007, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Um, he only has one post so he could not have installed it legally.

Well, darnit !!!

And here I was being all helpful and everything!!!

Brettmo · 03-21-2007, 08:44 PM

Thanks for this piece of code too. I installed it and my items in the site map went up by about 25%. :wink_ma:

**Code Monkey** · 03-21-2007, 09:05 PM

If you chose to auto add tags for current threads you might want to go through and delete the garbage words. You can also use a complete list of stopwords in the settings and redo it and have it remove them. The last thing you want is tags/to/ and tags/get/ etc...

Brettmo · 03-21-2007, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

If you chose to auto add tags for current threads you might want to go through and delete the garbage words. You can also use a complete list of stopwords in the settings and redo it and have it remove them. The last thing you want is tags/to/ and tags/get/ etc...

It now comes with a good list of those small stop words so the amount of rework is not bad. It did take a little while to consolidate some terms like Web and Internet. I don't see much point in having two tags that should exactly duplicate themselves. Well, I suppose there would be some benefit, but I would rather have a concise list of tags. Overall, the tag feature is good and it is nice to have those new pages included in the site map.

**Code Monkey** · 03-21-2007, 09:40 PM

Keep in mind that with that many added to your sitemap, google will list some from older threads as suplimental results. From my experience this goes away as they re-spider some of the older threads that have the links to their respective tags. Once it finds links to those tag pages it will remove them from suplimental results.

Brettmo · 03-21-2007, 09:57 PM

What is the difference between a suplimental and a regular result? Is the suplimental result one where google by default hides the page from the search results? :err_d:

Bandwurm · 03-22-2007, 09:38 AM

Why I'm not able to download this Mod?