General question
« on: January 20, 2019, 05:01:23 PM »
Hello team,
Most popular plugins for seo pings automatically/updates sitemap at google webmasters when we update post or on new post.
Does this script the same thing? or we should do this manualle each time we post new content?
Re: General question
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2019, 05:24:12 AM »
Hello,

you need to run it manually or create a scheduled task in your hosting control panel to run generator at specific time.
Also, your can use our PRO Sitemaps service (pro-sitemaps.com) that updates sitemap automatically.
Re: General question
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2019, 05:55:47 AM »
Yes i know that,i have settled cron job.But when the cron job finishes the job all sitemap urls have <lastmod>2019-01-21T01:35:46+00:00</lastmod>  same date&hour. Does this makes sense? Shouldn't sitemap update only for new posts or the recent updated posts only?
In my opinion the sitemap on the update should grab only the new posts and the recent updated posts



I have 1 more question regarding the images sitemap.
Yesterday i bought that sitemap images addon and created sitemap_images.xml.

My post image url: [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]
My .zip file dl url: [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

As you can see both url's have the /attachments/ on the url, in this case i must exclude the .zip files from the sitemap.

At the CRAWLER RULES - Exclude URLs: i have added /attachments/ which exclude those urls from the sitemap,how i can remove only the .zip files and to allow images?
Re: General question
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2019, 06:14:59 AM »
Hello,

sitemap generator automatically sets date/time attribute in a sitemap when website specifies it in "Last-modified" http header, otherwise current date/time is used.

You can add ".zip" in Exclude URLs setting to remove only zip files.
Re: General question
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2019, 06:19:36 AM »
1-You mean the site must have meta tag something like this <meta property="og:updated_time" content="2019-01-15T18:36:08+00:00" />  ? If no this what <"Last-modified" http header> we must have?

2- just .zip? lol so simple
Re: General question
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2019, 04:31:43 PM »
You website should return it in an http header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Last-Modified
Or it could be last-modified meta tag in html source:
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<meta http-equiv=”last-modified” content=”YYYY-MM-DD”>
Re: General question
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2019, 05:38:22 PM »
If i add such  code to my header won't hurt in somehow my google rank right?
Re: General question
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2019, 05:28:29 AM »
It might actually help with crawling if last-modified http header is defined on your website.
Re: General question
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2019, 06:49:47 AM »
Any suggestion what the hell we add to this content=”YYYY-MM-DD”> so we can get the updated date/last modified date?
i'm using xenforo
Re: General question
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2019, 08:06:21 AM »
That depends on the website, you would need to contact your website developer to do that.
Re: General question
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2019, 11:25:10 AM »
My forum default sitemap has this
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<lastmod>' . gmdate(DateTime::W3C, $result['lastmod']) . '</lastmod>You have this
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<lastmod><TVAR LASTMOD></lastmod>If i change yours with my site default sitemap will work to get the last modify date and not the date sitemap is created?



Also i'll post new issue,
on my site i have 19,528 posts and your sitemap has 4,776,as you can see there are missing too much almost everything.

On the script configuration "Maximum depth level:" i have set "0".
Re: General question
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2019, 08:27:36 PM »
Hello,

1. I'm sorry I cannot provide details on how to setup meta tags in this specific case, but there might be some ready made solutions for this scenario.

2. Could you please PM me your generator URL and an example URL that is not included in sitemap and how it can be reached starting from homepage?
 
Re: General question
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2019, 09:11:49 PM »
From here [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] first post [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] - [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] = not found

Other: from here [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] - [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] = not found
Re: General question
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2019, 07:47:49 AM »
PM sent