Google/Yahoo Sitemap Feature Requests

1. Ability to have all reports default to sorting in reverse date order so the newest items are at the top.

2. Checkboxes to mass-delete report items.

Both features are implemented and will be included in the next Sitemap Generator version

May I make a request that keyword search: result pages are also included in the site map? obviously these will be limited in number as searches are deleted every hour.... however google /yahoo should still pick up on them.

[edit] just noticed, a much better page title for these search result pages is needed too[/edit]

rob,

when SE bot is crawling your search results pages, they should be visible in SE Bots Activity Log as "search.php" request entries. Is it what you meant?

no...

Lets say a member does a search with keywords....

That search URL *could be* added as an entry to the sitemap....

Obviously the results page is very keyword rich, so I think it would make a nice addition.

I see. In default environment these pages will expire to the moment when SE bot will go crawling them:

1. time #1 - search query submit
2. time #2 - sitemap generation+google ping
3. time #3 - google bot downloads sitemap file
4. time #4 - sitemap is parsed and (probably?) some of the urls are placed in the some sort of "crawling queue".
5. time #5 - the page is crawled by the bot

Obviously, (time5-time1) will be much more than 1 hour on nearly every case. That's why it will not be a part of default vBSEO Sitemap Generator script.

However, with new Sitemap Generator (will be released shortly ), it will be easy to create a simple add-on code that will add these pages to sitemap. This will be very useful for the forums with long (non-default) life-time set for search queries.

Ok, but fyi, It's only vB's cache / record of the search that expires.... not the actual page.

What I mean is that when SE bot will fetch the search.php?searchid=xxx page, it will not find the corresponding content (i.e., search results). Or will it?

Hmm....

I see what you mean..... I just noticed how vB handles searches....

I was expecting it to use something along the lines of search.php?q=my+search+query

Hmmm.... thats a shame..... some really valuable keyword rich pages could have been added there....

Workarounds?? hmmm.... suggestions?