Home page sitemap

Hello Sam,

for vBulletin forum you should use our vBSEO Sitemap Generator. The latest version is available in downloads area: http://www.vbseo.com/downloads/

I see, you can check the list of sitemap generators here:
Google Code - Sitemaps Third Party Programs & Websites

Originally Posted by atlanticangler

I have that installed on my forum. If you read my first post, I am inquiring about the rest of my site. Does the site map look correct? Can you great guys recommend a good, easy site map generator for the rest of my site (not the forum), vBulletin.

I hacked the hell out of the vBSEO site map for that functionality. I couldn't live without mapping all of my site. I have many sections.

Hi all,

I'm kind of wondering the same thing about the best way to sitemap my whole site, as well as the forum. My vBSEO'd forum is not even online yet, but I'm trying to get things as right as I can before I start.

Since half my website traffic is generated from other forums/blogs etc, I figured I might as well set up my own forum, since if people are blogging and linking to my pages already, a forum sounds like it'll work out well, connected to the website.

So should I use a the gsitemap tool I already use, or use that for the site other than the forum and then use the vBSEO sitemap tool for the forum and combine them or ??

I know I have no PR for the forum, because it doesn't exist yet, but my small 150 page website (looking at some tools from SEOchat) has a PR of 6 and most pages that are below that are PR 4-5, says I could sell text links for $35 bucks, yada yada yada, so I guess I have a pretty good brand already going and want to enhace it, and not mess things up.

Also, as far as SEO/branding/better recognition by the search engines/etc. go, since my site and domain has been around since 1999, would I be smarter using a sub-domain like forums.oddmusic.com (which I've already set up in dns) which really points to "www.oddmusic.com/forum" or should just be using "www.oddmusic.com/forum" since the main domain has been around and indexed for so long.... or does that matter?

Thanks for any direction.

Originally Posted by atlanticangler

I would just like to know if vBSEO submits a sitemap for my whole site or just the forum sitemap to google.

If I need to submit a sitemap for the non-forum pages, no big deal, just point me in the right (not a scam search, I could do that on my own), but an actual good sitemap program.... IF this is necessary.

There are probably others, but this one is very good and free, and has a lot of other features. I'm still not sure if I need to do both, or just use that one or tweak the vBSEO app to do the whole site, but maybe someone will eventually answer my questions posted a couple messages up.

Anyway, check this one out: Google Sitemap Generator for Windows :: GSiteCrawler

Originally Posted by noppid

I hacked the hell out of the vBSEO site map for that functionality. I couldn't live without mapping all of my site. I have many sections.

I am very concerned about this also. Can you give us a little guidance on this?

Thank you,

Jim

Originally Posted by dsarathy

Checkout sitemaps.org - Home for details. BTW sitemaps.org is collaborative site from both Google & Yahoo to provide webmasters and publishers a unified way to send thier content.

D Sarathy.
RankQuest

Cool, thanks for the resource. Maybe someone at vBSEO will chime in on some of the questions above at some point....

Nice site you have too, very informative.