What is Text Sitemap?

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• bizworldusaanu Registered Users

  July 2012

  Site maps help search engine bots index your site more deeply and push you up in the search engine results.
  
  Step 1
  
  Go through your forum permissions:
  
  Admin panel>>>General>>>Forum>>>Categories and forums and click on the little cross and tick icon nearby the orange cog.
  
  Go through your list of forums and set any forums you want search engines to index to guests can view the forum and read the topics. This is important for generating a plain text sitemap. Please also make sure you set any forums you do not want indexed to guests cannot view. You can always change this when finished.
  
  Step 2
  
  Go to this site here
  
  Type the main link to your forum in the starting URL box. Leave the rest of the settings as they are and click start. You will have to wait a little while whilst it goes through your site. Once it has finished it will give you a whole page of download links. You want the link for: Download Sitemap in Text Format. Click it and save to your computer.
  
  Step 3
  
  You now need to go into your saved file by opening it with your notepad or wordpad in windows. Highlight it all and copy it.
  
  Step 4 - The Boring Part
  
  Go into your admin panel>>>Modules>>>HTML Pages Management>>>Create New HTML page. Call it sitemap and where it says: Do you wish to use your forum’s page header and page footer? select NO. Thats very important.
  
  In the HTML page box below, paste up your copied site map. Here comes the dullest part of the job. You need to go through your links and if any of them have: login forum?=redirect in the address/URL remove it, as this means you have not set your permissions right and its picked up on a forum its not allowed into. You then need to start from the top and you will notice every link ends in .htm or htm#numbers. After every htm, you need to add this tag: <br> (not in bold) Its quickest to do one, then highlight and copy the tag, then just right click and paste for all your other links. This is time consuming and dull but it has to be done.
  
  thank you.
  bizworldusa.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• morganlong Registered Users

  October 2012

  SmithJones wrote: »

  
  A text site map is a simple text file that includes the basic structure of pages on your website. Site maps allow search engines to index your site and allow users to navigate your site more easily.

  I agree with your information. Sitemap helps you to index fast in search engine.

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