sitemap options

Sitemap options, what to chose?

1) Show Post Pages - were're talking pages showing a single post here, right? If so, I'll go for a no. any reason I shouldn't?
2) Member Profile Pages - any point in this? I'm tempted to press no, but why is it yes as default? something I'm missing?
3) Archive Pages - don't have an archive, so I don't have to care about that one.
4) Show Thread Pages - this is a clear yes, no?
5) Forum Display Pages - yes too.
6) Poll Result Pages - what kind of pages are these? threads with polls in them, or something else? should I include them?

SGL.

Any ideas?

What is a poll result page? Is it a page with the poll result only?
Members profile pages, any reasons for adding those to the sitemap?

SGL.

EDIT: I now only have "show thread" and "forum display" to be included. Is this unwise in any way?

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I would index your poll result pages. They are individual pages that show only the poll.

As for showpost pages, that all comes down to whether you think showpost is duplicate content or not. Some here do show it, some don't. There is no real right or wrong answer. I choos to index the showpost pages, and use the smart feature in VBSEO to nofollow showpost urls in threads that have only 1 post.

I also index member profile pages, and with the upcoming changes for vbulletin when 3.7 comes out, I would reccomend having these pages indexed.

Thanks for the reply!

What are the upcoming changes to vBulletin 3.7 concerning the member profiles?

SGL.

example poll result page:
vBulletin Community Forum - View Poll Results

its for public polls.


what i do:
in sitemap:

showpost, no
printthread, no

in vbseo:
i don't rewrite either of them

in robots.txt:
they are disallowed

as for profile pages:
vBulletin 3.7 First Look! - vBulletin Community Forum

Originally Posted by Mike

As for showpost pages, that all comes down to whether you think showpost is duplicate content or not. Some here do show it, some don't. There is no real right or wrong answer. I choos to index the showpost pages, and use the smart feature in VBSEO to nofollow showpost urls in threads that have only 1 post.

Where do I set this option? Or is it set by default?

Originally Posted by briansol

what i do:
in sitemap:

showpost, no
printthread, no

in vbseo:
i don't rewrite either of them

in robots.txt:
they are disallowed

Since showpost is enabled by default, does that mean the the majority of the vBSEO team do not consider it duplicate content?

Printthread, I don't find that as an option among my sitemap settings, where is it?

How do you disable rewriting for those in vBSEO?

And the robots.txt, is there some instructions here how to make a file like that?

SGL.