I've had a forum running for about 5 months on SMF and Google hadn't really touched my site, other than the main section titles. No posts had been indexed and there are 35,000 of them. So I did a bit of searching and found the following thread on the SMF forums. This gives details of how to set up HTML indexes and URL lists for Yahoo, making it nice and easy for search engines to get to the detail. Here's a link to the thread : http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=59676.msg414590 The pages produced by the code then look like this : HTML Index http://www.neforum2.co.uk/smf/sitemaps/index.php Yahoo URL List http://www.neforum2.co.uk/smf/sitemaps/urllist.php If you're running an SMF based forum, this should give you the highest chance of getting your site indexed in Google/Yahoo and many other Search Engines.
I'll check that one out. I installed a different sitemap about 2 weeks ago. I'm still waiting to see if I've gotten any traffic to it. Brandon
the simplemachines thread cannot be found :| I found this at webdigity.com. You can use this also instead. http://www.davilac.net/foro/sitemaps/sitemaps.zip
Well, I switched my main site over to vBulletin last week, so need for this right now. After using vBulletin a little bit, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to use it on any serious forum. If I'm just tossing a forum up to have one, I'll go with SMF every time, but I'm really trying to develop a community, I can't deal with lack of search engine friendly pages, among other things. Brandon