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updated to 1.11 and everything went smooth, thanks frost!

Hey Frost,

Google Webmasters is having issues right now, so I can't check, but I left pagnation at 1000. You can judge for yourself, but I'd say I have a lot of content. I read somewhere that the sitemap could not be in a forum directory, so my last attempt before webmasters went down was to use a redirect in the root to redirect it to the sitemap inside the forum directory.

TheWiz

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Im also upgrading to 1.1.11, so I'll see if that fixes it possibly.

Thanks again,
TheWiz

Your sitemap seems to work fine for me, but of course I'm not Google, so if you have anything in your forum that makes it treat Google different from normal guests...

It's fine to have the sitemap in the forum directory. However a sitemap must not reference URLs outside of its domain, so if your sitemap is in the forum directory, it's only allowed to contain links that are within this directory. By default, this is the case, if your bburl is set correctly anyway.

What probably won't work is a robots.txt in the forum folder. That one should go to the root. Currently on your site it seems to point to the wrong file (disallowing /file.php instead of /forum/file.php).

Whats new in this version?

Just upgraded to the new version, thanks for keeping this updated.

(2010-02-14, 10:55 AM)Unknown_Hello Wrote: [ -> ]Whats new in 1.1.11?

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I have a suggestion / request for this SEO plugin, when it makes SEO URLs for forums such as: (I will use my not-yet-launched forum as a example)

http://www.pokemon-forum.com/pokemon-gaming

The same URL with a ending "/" does not work, it goes to 404:

http://www.pokemon-forum.com/pokemon-gaming/

Example of a Thread:

http://www.pokemon-forum.com/thread-testing-tags

Then the 404 with "/":

http://www.pokemon-forum.com/thread-testing-tags/

Wouldn't it be better if the URL worked weather it had a "/" on the end or not, I myself would prefer this. Maybe there is already a way to do this that I am missing.

It wouldn't be better. The / adds zero information.

It also adds a lot of problems. / is used for directories. So if you use URLs like that, your browser would think of it as a directory. And use this directory as a base when following relative links. Thus breaking them.

I'm planning to add experimental support for virtual directory structure some time in the future (not before MyBB 1.6).

Thanks for replying, it was just a thought I had.

Hey Fros,

I jsut fixed the robots.txt, i will report back when google has downloaded the newer robots file.

Thanks for the tip

TheWiz

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And after fixing robots, renaming it to just map-index.xml, and waiting a day! it works! Thanks again for all of your help.

TheWiz