Generate Sitemap for directory one-level up?

Can someone point me in the right direction on how i can create site maps for user generated content on non-vb pages that use global.php outside of the VBULLETIN/FORUM directory...

I have 1000's of uploaded content that has its own dynamic URL that i want to add to a sitemap... any tips/pointers?

Can i use VBSEO or do i have to manually do it...

juss wanna know how i can first tag all the existing dynamic urlsthat look like this "...php?id=#" automatically and then capture them going forward?

Is there anyway to maybe use RSS ... dunno.. juss grasping at straws here...

if its in your database, you can query it directly.

see the 'addons' folder for examples. its just 1 basic query with a loop of the recordset

Ok.. so i created a custom addon and did a test...

I posted something in my forum about the new content added on another custom page... and waited a couple days...

Then i put the full URL of the forum post in google and voila!! The post is there in google results... as expected...

HOWEVER... the custom URL is nowhere to be found... when i put the entire url into google... it just returns the subfolder and not my specific url...

eg) location: www.mysite.com/subfolder/play.php?id=12

Google only returns the following entry in results: www.mysite.com/subfolder/

What can i look at to troubleshoot? Other than doing a rewrite to make the URL a little more SE friendly eg).htm

did you check the sitemap file iteself to make sure they are being included?
extra's are the last things to get executed, so it should be in your last X.xml.gz file.

pop it open in a browser.


Also, did you include the addon to be included in the vb options for the sitemap? There's a blank at the bottom where you place the script name.

Yup.... the file is listed in the ADDON option textarea for VBSEO OPTIONS in admin panel...

Plus... i see the entries in my last sitemap file... #17

Code:

<url>
 <loc>http://www.msyite.com/subfolder/play.php?Id=1069</loc> 

 <priority>0.5</priority> 

 <lastmod>1970-01-01T00:32:50+00:00</lastmod> 

 <changefreq>daily</changefreq> 

 </url>

 

Hmm.... i actually see all 1069 entries in there... i wonder where its going to? Do you notice any loc, priority or changefreq issues?

Thanks

The last modified date should be addressed. It's defaulting to unix epoc time.

I checked my other entries though for the forum and they have the same time format... where wud i change it if i did? here's a couple other things i noticed...

> Sitemap Downloads Log: This goes to page/link 240 and the last entry is at Feb.2.2009

BUT

my report list seem up to date with the latest entry:

88 2009-04-29 02:02 80.31 s 323,808 +134 Yes Yes

not thew format, the actual time itself.

surely, the page wasn't last modified in 1970...

sorry for the 100 questions... but where is the XML deriving the timestamp from?

you can get the date from your query, and the dateline field if your data has it. it goes in the 3rd parameter of vbseo_add_url() function. If you don't have a dateline in your db for these pages, i would suggest using now() or some other more recent date than unix epoch.