Site map on a forum

**haynes8** · 02-05-2008, 09:26 AM

Would a forum be worth the trouble to site map? its currently at 1065 threads, and I am sure it would take some time, but if it would help the site in long run I dont mind going ahead with it.

Any thoughts?

**Banned: SonnyBurnett** · 02-05-2008, 10:07 AM

Sitemap is a good help for Google spiders.

Better for VBulletin forums.

**haynes8** · 02-05-2008, 10:14 AM

The forum is vBulletin

**MobileDesigner** · 02-05-2008, 06:15 PM

there needs to be a menu/sitemap on all pages. especially dnforum. i bookmark "new posts" instead of the main page. Also, if i want to search Japanese IDNs for example, i dont want to search for it throught the main page (where it takes me many clicks to get there). if there was a menu wherever you bookmark, it would be much easier to find what we are looking for. used to be at dnforums bottom-right but now its gone!
I wish it were back

**haynes8** · 02-05-2008, 07:25 PM

I've been surfing for info on how to sitemap a forum, so far the best thing I have run across seem to be vbSEO, would there be another way? Or what would be the best way.

**Banned: SonnyBurnett** · 02-05-2008, 07:42 PM

First create a sitemap and later add VBseo.
VBseo is a great tool for search engines if you run a VBulletin Forum.

**haynes8** · 02-05-2008, 08:54 PM

Its vbulletin, is there any good way to sitemap a forum? Does it need to have a link to each thread? Or what would it require?

Thanks all

**haynes8** · 02-10-2008, 09:40 AM

I've created 2 sitemaps, one is a sitemap of the forums, the second is a sitemap of th threads.

I am wondering if this is a good idea, and if so should I dot a map of all the posts, or if the map of the treads will cover the posts in each thread.

Thanks for the help

**lordbyroniv** · 02-10-2008, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by haynes8

I've created 2 sitemaps, one is a sitemap of the forums, the second is a sitemap of th threads.

I am wondering if this is a good idea, and if so should I dot a map of all the posts, or if the map of the treads will cover the posts in each thread.

Thanks for the help

This is intiguing - how would you sitemap threads? How would that be organized

Ive been thinking about something like this for my forum

**haynes8** · 02-10-2008, 10:45 AM

I am also using a robots.txt file to exclude the member.php and the memberlist.php files, I have noticed that the member.php file has been indexed in yahoo and I am not sure thats a good idea..... any enlightenment would be apreciated.

**Banned: SonnyBurnett** · 02-10-2008, 11:09 AM

Standard robots.txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow:

**haynes8** · 02-10-2008, 11:45 AM

Yes i already have the robots.txt in place this morning, but I am wondering if affects the site any by disallowing the member.php and memberlist.php files.