Crazed Sitemap?

[dscurlock]

I have aprox 55 posts on my forum.

so far the sitemap has been running for more then 30 min.

has scanned 5000+ pages...

What is going on with this sitemap?

I would hate to think if I had 10,000 posts..

Admin,

Can you please add IPB (invision board) to  your list...
I do not see IPB in order to exclude a lot of this
junk from being added to the sitemap.

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

please try these settings for IPB based site:
in "Exclude URLs":

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&pid=
&view=
&do=reply
&do=new
act=Post
act=Login
act=usercp
req=sendentry
op=reportcomment
show=next
req=syndicate
req=showarchive

in "Do not parse":

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showuser=
&user=
do=stats
req=printentry
show=comment
showtopic=
showentry=
lofiversion/index.php/t
&img=

[dscurlock]

Did not work...in fact just a day later the sitemap crashed...
it failed to load the sitemap page, nor would it no longer
allow me to log in the cPanel anymore...

I may not even use it for IPB..I am curious is
vbulletin on your list? I do not need another IPB failure
and loose the entire sitemap like i did on this one.

Hello,

please try these settings for IPB based site:
in "Exclude URLs":

Code Select Expand

&pid=
&view=
&do=reply
&do=new
act=Post
act=Login
act=usercp
req=sendentry
op=reportcomment
show=next
req=syndicate
req=showarchive

in "Do not parse":

Code Select Expand

showuser=
&user=
do=stats
req=printentry
show=comment
showtopic=
showentry=
lofiversion/index.php/t
&img=

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

please let me know your generator URL/login in private message to check this.

[optrex]

you  need to put the calendar urls in the exclusions. I guarantee you have multiple posts for every day of the week coming from calendar rather than just the events themselves. I have found using robots.txt is a better way of restricting access, because then you catch the spiders that dont have your sitemap