Google Sitemap v2.7

[lenco12]

Can't the db login stuff be eliminated by using the config include?

require 'include/config.php';

and instead of this echo "<url><loc>http://www.site.com/video/".$info[0]."/".$SefUrl."/</loc></url>";

put echo "<url><loc>{$base_url}/video/".$info[0]."/".$SefUrl."/</loc></url>";

or will that bork the whole thing....Imma go try it.

I made it as a stand alone script. But both ways are fine

[clonevideos]

I made it as a stand alone script. But both ways are fine

Do i need to edit the codes? or it is working? which file i have to edit now? please make it clear. i am still unable to make it work.

[mersh]

The sitemap works great:

http://thewall.net/sitemap.php

Kudos and thanks, RAMMSTEIN!

BUT.... apparently a sitemap on a vshare site doesn't do a thing for Google.

Google webmaster tools recognizes 4,283 links in my sitemap, and has indexed TWO. My guess is it's "thewall.net" and "thewall.net/index.php"


My site's been online since 1997, and I had a lot more pages in Google when I was doing nothing with the site. I've had vshare on it for three years now, and am yet to see one of my videos show up in Google.

Anyone know what the deal is with that? Does anyone have a different story?

[bplex]

The issue is that the sitemaps on this forum are no longer acceptable for Google Video. About 2 years ago, Google changed the requirements for video sitemaps and no one has bothered to update the code to match the new requirements.

[mersh]

I'm not sure that's it - I had a google- video sitemap up for over a year before the new vshare version, and the same situation existed.

And even so, you'd think that the page itself even without the video should show up in the index, due to title and descriptive text. Not to mention that Vshare is very SEO friendly.

[bplex]

Unfortunately, no, that is not true. Google only indexes further into the page based upon PageRank. If the pagerank of the site is low, then Google will only index a few pages. The purpose of a video site map is only to provide sites like Google with your site's meta data. It doesn't mean that Google will choose to index each page. The original intent of how Google implemented video sitemaps was for the Google Video service. Since Google has gotten rid of that service they did around 2006-2007 (it was replaced with YouTube), the only real point to it now is for meta data.

[mersh]

Not sure I agree. Google has no way of knowing from the non-video sitemap that this is a video site. Without a video sitemap, all it's got to go by is the text on the pages. Page ranking doesn't affect indexing, only what's displayed in a search. I have sites with a zero page ranking that have most of their pages indexed.