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markgraham
Contributor
15 years ago

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of (new) MB posts

I am thinking about how to best ensure that all of our MB posts are indexed by Google/Bing. One idea is to submit new XML sitemaps, daily, that contain (only) URLs for all the new posts made in th...
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davidtwamley
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Mark and I had a great phone call yesterday. He is managing a much larger community than mine and made a very good case for using sitemap.xml for getting new forum posts indexed more quickly. It serves a similar purpose to blog pinging, only for forums. Plus, Mark had success with this approach in the past.

 

For part 2 of your question regarding the rest call. I started another post, List urls for posts made in the last 24 hours in the Everything Studio board. Lithium gurus have been doling out a lot of REST info over there lately.

 

Jake, thanks for the static sitemap.xml tip. We get ours tonight!

 

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JakeR
Khoros Oracle
15 years ago
David, I'm glad it is working out for you on the static sitemap, but I definitely want to get the dynamic one that both you and Mark are talking about into our product. *fingers crossed*

I also see that the thread you started on "posts in the last 24 hours" was answered by AdamT. Win. :)

And last but not least, it is great to have you over here. For as good as it is for Lithium folks to be answering questions, I'd like think that your participation is HUGE in getting us to not only push the product further, but also to disseminate shared knowledge.