Sitemap

It would be very useful to have a Google Sitemap Generator for vShare...(to include all Video URLs)

You might be interested in this:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

You can map up to 500 pages without paying anything. If your site is large enough to require more, it only costs $20 to register. Not bad.

thanks, I know that site and it does most of what I am looking for.
but I would like to have a script on my site that autogenerates an XML output dinamically form the database, and auto-update the list af new videos...
i have done something lke that but in ASP code and used SiteMaps generators for Joomla and Wordpress...is something like this doable in vShare?

It sounds doable to me, but I'm a pre-school level novice at php, so I'm probably not the best person to chime in on the topic.

eh eh ...me too... :D
so far i manager to extract all ethe info i need (Video ID and Title) but I am not able to "build" the URL...;-)

OK!
I think I am almost done with the sitemap generator...I have a beta version that looks good...!!! ;-)
is there a complete list of invalid Chars in and URL that needs to be replaced? (or, admin, can you just tell how/what invalid chars are replaced when building URLs? :oops: )

Stay Tuned!

OK, the sitemap generator is working like it should... :D
if anyone is interested please PM me...
i think i will post some code later, not now (it's 2.40 in the morning here.... :D )

hi,
i ve tried this sm generator,but it doesn t give me much url :'(
this is what i get:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">

<url>
<loc>http://glissemagtv.com/</loc>
<priority>0.5</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>


how come i don t get all urls?
do i have to trick the .htaccess?
thx for your help
best regards
herve

I managed to get ALL the URLs for my Videos.
Basically, I wrote a simple script that takes all videos form the database and builds their URL.
It Works, Google took it with no problems .I just have to double check everything befor eposting it on my site or here...just to make sure everything is OK before releasing it...

hi autodafe,
would it be possible to have it please?
best regards
herve

here it is:
Sitemap Generator for vShare

any feedback is appreciated.
I am using it on my two sites and it's doing fine ;-)

hi autodafe,
thx a lot for your answer,i tried it ,this is how it look:
http://www.glissemagtv.com/sm2.php
No sitemap file generated,no error message :'(
did i missed something?
thx for your time
herve

sorry, I just noticed that there was a missing dot (".")
I probably deleted it when copying script text to my website.
Try again now (just copy/paste again everything and tell me if it works now)

You should see something like this:

http://www.vwchannel.tv/sitemap.php

hi autodaphe,
this is what i get
http://www.glissemagtv.com/sm.php
but no sitemap.xml generated in the ftp :(
thx for your time!

It doesn't generate a.xml file

this php Scripts Generates a XML stream which is compatible with Google Sitemaps. You simply have to feed your sm.php page to Google sitemap.
Just check that there are no errors, I think there 's one in your sitemap...

i see the Url in the sitemap are like these:
http://www.glissemagtv.com5/video-longskate-barrage/
they should be:
http://www.glissemagtv.com/view/5/video ... e-barrage/

double check your code. Just copy/paste my script in an emty php page, edit your database connection details, save it and uplaod.
That should be all!

hi,
does it look ok with you?
http://www.glissemagtv.com/sm.php
how come there are no all url of videos and link generated with tags (wich is mainly their use generate depth in a website)
thx for your time

yes,it does look good to me.
don't lookat the "written" output on the page...
look at the source code (right-clik-->HTML on IE, right-click-->Source in FireFox)
You should see all the tags correctly placed:

this is a portion of what I get from yours:

Code:

---

<url>
    <loc>http://www.glissemagtv.com/view/5/video-longskate-barrage/</loc>
      <lastmod>2007-04-28</lastmod>
        <priority>1</priority>
</url>

---

which looks more than OK!!! :D

now, try feeding your SiteMap into Gogle Webmaster Tools, it should be OK.

Look: this is how my Sitemap work in Google...

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/874/sitemapag9.jpg

I am currently working on a newer version of the sitemap script that is compatible with the new "Video Sitemap" features adopted by Google...
i'll keep you posted on this...if anyone is interested please PM me I can send you something to start beta-testing...
:D

the new version of the Sitemap, which supports the new "Viedo Sitemap" feature for Google is almost complete.
I have submitted mine and it is working, another user is testing the same code and will soon report to me.
if anyone needs it or simply want to help test it just drop me a PM.

Hi,
Here is my link http://www.pinoymonster.com/sitemap_last.php
i am not sure if its working..
Can you help please.
HOque

Hello,

I've submited the sitemap to google and it gave this warning:
We've detected that your Sitemap file begins with whitespace. We've accepted the file, but you may want to remove the whitespace so that the file adheres to the XML standard.

remove all unnecessary spaces and line retunr from the beginning of the sitemap.
however, AFAIK, this is just a warning and not an error message and the sitemap should be already submitted

Hi Guys, for any of you I published the code for the "Google Video Sitemap" on my website:

you can find it here:
Video Sitemap for VShare

enjoy, please let me know if it's working for you, it might need some tweaking.

Thanks autodafe. I was getting a parsing error with the old video sitemap, but this new one works great. Now I just hope that my videos will actually get indexed in Google Video. Has anyone else succeeded in this feet yet?