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Alex · June 18th, 2009, 09:17 AM

That's OK, there are more than enough Canadians on this board already.

The friendly URL's used to help a few years back, but have been made irrelevant once Google started to accept sitemaps quite awhile ago. Many forum sites (including this one), use a tool that indexes the entire site, all threads, all member pages, all everything, and puts the URL of each site into a single text file. That file, called a sitemap, tells search engines everything they need to know about what pages exist on the site. Google (and Yahoo) pull down our sitemap several times per day, so they know immediately about every single one of the pages on the site, it's pretty useful. The issue is that Google then decides how important each one of those pages is, and if nobody else on the internet has taken the time to link to it, or there isn't anything particularly unique about the content on that page, then it never makes its way high up into the search index anyway.

Prior to sitemaps, friendly URL's made it a little more likely that more of a site would be indexed successfully, but at this point it doesn't make a whit of difference. If you want to take a peek at our sitemap, the index is right at:

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

The end of each sitemap file links to the next one, there are several to keep the file sizes down.

June 18th, 2009, 09:17 AM	#58
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	That's OK, there are more than enough Canadians on this board already. The friendly URL's used to help a few years back, but have been made irrelevant once Google started to accept sitemaps quite awhile ago. Many forum sites (including this one), use a tool that indexes the entire site, all threads, all member pages, all everything, and puts the URL of each site into a single text file. That file, called a sitemap, tells search engines everything they need to know about what pages exist on the site. Google (and Yahoo) pull down our sitemap several times per day, so they know immediately about every single one of the pages on the site, it's pretty useful. The issue is that Google then decides how important each one of those pages is, and if nobody else on the internet has taken the time to link to it, or there isn't anything particularly unique about the content on that page, then it never makes its way high up into the search index anyway. Prior to sitemaps, friendly URL's made it a little more likely that more of a site would be indexed successfully, but at this point it doesn't make a whit of difference. If you want to take a peek at our sitemap, the index is right at: http://www.ninjette.org/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz The end of each sitemap file links to the next one, there are several to keep the file sizes down. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)