this doesn't mean it's not working . It's working it's just not using friendly urls. You have to make sure you have activated these types of urls in the Xml sitemaps config. also make sure you delete the cache is you use it.
pligg
· 1 year ago
thanks, you can tell me how and where to config the xml sitemaps..
pligg
· 1 year ago
i modificated in admin with TRUE friendly ulr, i delete the files from cache and i insert the line in httaccess, but the url is the same..
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
the value has to be 'true' not 'TRUE' ... this is case sensitive
pligg
· 1 year ago
yes is true not TRUE
mushmoosh
· 1 year ago
The XML Sitemaps module has been excellent; however, I recently ran into a problem with assigning the correct priority value.
Google returned the following Warning message:
All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can't tell which are more important.
Does anyone know how to correct this?
Any guidance will be appreciated!! :-)
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
The module computes the priority based on the link age, number of comments, number of votes, and the last time when it was updated.
This is the exact formula at xml_sitemaps_main.php line 154: $v=(time()-$link->date)/60; $pri=max(0.0001,(( $link->comments /$v ) * 30 + ( $link->votes * 10 / $v ) + ( 100 / max(100,time()-$link->modified) ) * 60 )/ 100 );
my idea was that the number of comments it got since it was created should account for 30% of the priority, the number of votes for 10% and the time when it was last updated ( commented, voted, modified ) for 60%
I guess this isn't perfect for all sites, so just change it till you get it right for your site.
mushmoosh
· 1 year ago
Thank you for such a prompt response! One more quick question... For about half of my generated sitemaps, every entry will have a priority set to: 0.0001.
I can definitely tinker with the formula you pointed out.
I am using the RSS Import module and it randomizes the votes. Everything else will probably be close to constant values. It worked perfectly for a long time until recently.
Maybe I should shift the weight of your formula toward the number of votes since the update or # of comments is typically constant.
Thank you for your guidance!
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
0.0001 is used for all links that have a priority that is less then 0.0001 . If all your links have that then maybe they all have a priority less then 0.0001
as you can see from the formula, the number of votes and comments are divided by the link age ( in minutes ) . So for really old links that were not updated recently, with few comments and few votes the priority is very likely to be under 0.0001 And the fact that you are using the RSS import module makes it worse because it assigns votes randomly but all at the same time. So the link is only updated once when it it posted but then not updated unless someone comments on it.
Also if you are caching the sitemap you will almost never have ( depending on how long you decide to cache it ) an updated sitemap right after a link was posted ( when it should have the highest priority because it was updated very recently, and has a lot of votes)
mushmoosh
· 1 year ago
Thank you for the thorough explanation. I now understand the exact problem. In result, using the RSS import will definitely cause me to experience this problem as time passes.
Do you suggest that I completele re-arrange the formula to ensure that it is divided by the # of votes? Also, what do you suggest in terms of an appropriate cache time?
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
I don't see how dividing by # of votes would help or what is the logic in that since you're assigning votes randomly, unless all you are trying to get is different / variable / random priority for each link, but I see no point in this.
I have cache set to one day for a site that also uses the RSS import module. I don't think less then a day would make much sense cause I doubt google or other search engines would try to download your sitemap more then once a day and even if they do they would not start fetching your new links so soon...but it's just a guess..I may be wrong...
mushmoosh
· 1 year ago
Hi Mihai
Here is the warning I receive according to Google Sitemaps:
"All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can't tell which are more important."
In result, if i divide by the # of votes, then i will have a better chance of receiving a unique priority. Is that correct? Am I overlooking something?
Goe D
· 1 year ago
I'm getting the same error on my Google's sitemap. Any patch on the formula?
It looks like G now is very strict in using a sitemap. I haven't had no errors before, the erroors just appeared recently. Any idea to fix it. It is not actually errors but WARNINGS.
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
I think, for sites using cache and the RSS importer or sites that don't have much traffic or many active users voting all the time it would be a good idea to modify the script like this: on line 154: instead of $v=(time()-$link->date)/60; use $v=(time()-$link->date)/3600;
you should clear the cache if you use it and resubmit the sitemap to google after this modification. IF you still get warnings just increase the divisor ( 3600 ) until it's ok I'm guessing that if you use a cache set for 1 day 3600 should be ok, if not you could go higher
do some testing and see how it looks . If you want the number of votes to take a higher value in the priority you could replace $link->votes * 10 with something like $link->votes * 35 and ( $link->comments /$v ) * 30 with ( $link->comments /$v ) * 5 . this makes votes account for 35% and comments for only 5% You should also take a look at this : http://patchlog.com/php/xml-sitemaps-pligg-modu...
Israel
· 1 year ago
Wouldnt we be able to just submit sitemapindex.xml and let google find the other sitemaps using that xml?
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
actually that's the only thing you have to submit
Israel
· 1 year ago
Okay great. I think you should have something somewhere where this is noted. It was a pain in the butt to figure where to find the sitemap pages and index. Maybe you can update the original sitemap post here, or even update the modules index page so it notes it from within the admin area.
" on line 154: instead of $v=(time()-$link->date)/60; use $v=(time()-$link->date)/3600; "
and error disappear but yesturday I upgrade pligg to 9.5.5 so I see this new error (before I use 9.8.2)
sara
· 1 year ago
this more detail
79 Invalid tag value This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help Parent tag: Tag: Value: Found: url priority 1.21323383742 Aug 8, 2008 Details 31 Invalid tag value This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help Parent tag: Tag: Value: Found: url priority 1.36334286505 Aug 8, 2008 Details 19 Invalid tag value This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help Parent tag: Tag: Value: Found: url priority 1.19110785838 Aug 8, 2008 Details 13 Invalid tag value This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help Parent tag: Tag: Value: Found: url priority 3.67763278809 Aug 8, 2008 Details 7 Invalid tag value This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help Parent tag: Tag: Value: Found: url priority 6.76048565121 Aug 8, 2008
iamcanadian
· 1 year ago
Same as above (Pligg 9.9.5)
"Invalid tag value This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. ”
Temi
· 1 year ago
Is there any way this formula can be rewritten to give votes at least 60% input to priority and have the lowest priority value greater than 0.1? I have all my priorities 0.00000x (E-5 in xml) and they all reset to 0.001 (the min function) making them all the same. I have 40,000 links and the older a link gets the lower this formula makes the value. can the lowest priority be greater than 0.1?
Zach
· 1 year ago
I've had this module installed for a day but my sitemap is incomplete -- it only shows two pages.
That's not your sitemap. It's the sitemap index. IT only contains links to other sitemaps. Go to the links in it and you'll see the actual sitemaps.
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
the fact that you divided by 3600 gives the priority more decimals ... maybe too many... And I think google doesn't like that
use : $v=round((time()-$link->date)/3600,3); instead of what you used before and let me know if you still have a problem
Temi
· 1 year ago
Mihal cold you please help me with my question above? i have sitemap-0.xml up to sitemap-76.xml and everything from 0-75 all have the same priority in webmaster tools. :(
Temi
· 1 year ago
*Mihai
Temi
· 1 year ago
Please please and please offer some help Mihai
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
Temi, please look at the discussions above about changing the formula if you really care about turning off those warnings.
You should also read google help that says that a waring is just that ... it's not an error and it doesn't mean they will not process your sitemap if you have those warnings. The only problem is they don't know which is more important to you.
Mihai Secasiu
· 1 year ago
You can rewrite the formula as you wish. but if you have 40000 links and the votes range is small how is giving the votes 60% going to improve the uniqueness of the priority ?
sara
· 1 year ago
When I use $v=round((time()-$link->date)/3600,3);
some priority go high 2.0 or 3.0 like that and error agian
and no error now, the highest priority are around 0.4 or 0.5 in new story on sitemap but sometime I got warning "All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority. " in some sitemap again in sitemap-1.xml (I have 6 sitemap) but sometime no warings
sitemap-1 to sitemap-5 all priority same 0.0001 but only sitemap-6 (the latest) have 0.1 0.2 0.3 like that
I like you plugin because this is only one sitemap plugin for pligg no more out there so I love it but I don't like to always go to check in Webmaster Tools that my pligg sitemap will okay or not? Sometime ok sometime not. sometime priority go higher that 1.0 sometime all same 0.0001
I understand your formula a bit but it very hard for me or other people to understand and fix it, Can you make it easier.
I have some example very good sitemap plugin for wordpress "XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.1.0.1 " Very easy to config and nothing to do after that, no error
I like the option that let people set priority (see picture below)
I have read the discussions but when I make changes to the formula some of my priorities go above 1.0 and 75 out of 76 sitemaps all have 0.001 priority. does anyone know how to change the formula so the priority relies solely on votes + comments and will still stay between 0 and 1.0 ?
sara
· 1 year ago
I same Temi
... who know how to set and priorities still stay between 0-1.0
That sitemap is just the one for pages like main mage, upcomming, categories and maybe others. It doesn't seem like it's missing anything but there are more sitemaps that you have to send to google. The other sitemaps will be named sitemap-x.xml ( where x is a number starting with 1 ) like this one: http://www.santabarbara.net/sitemap-0.xml You will have to send a sitemap index to google ( http://www.santabarbara.net/sitemapindex.xml ) . The sitemap index will contain links to all those sitemaps.
huski
· 1 year ago
thank you for your help mihai
Ramil
· 1 year ago
I have installed this module, submit a new story.... and I don't know where to go from here. There's no sitemapindex.xml that was created. Where can I found it?
Ramil
· 1 year ago
Ok, I figured it out.
My other question is do we have to submit both the /sitempaindex.xml and sitemap-XXXX.xml?
I'm waitting for that, so many problem here everytime when I get warning in google webmaster tools, I feel google temporaly stop index my pligg site
I find fomula that suit my site but no one suit my site, some over (1+), some less (0.0001) and I dont know much about math or this formula so I just random change the number and variable to see sitemap are okay or not
Now I get my own formula and remove $time variable because $time is the main variable that make priority change
I dont know what the meaning of number i put in there,I just put and see sitemap okay or not?
I dont care which story submit first or submit later I only want the sitemap that work proprely with google webmaster tools and let google index faster and faster, no time to wait, no time to check sitemap first before index.
Ex. If new sitemap error, Google won't index a new story that have priority problem, Google will wait until prioty or sitemap okay.
This can't wait. In real world we can't wait , who can index faster is the winner
Before my pligg site get index after submit around 15-60 minute but now after oftenly have problem with sitemap I have to wait for about 5-12 hours so people(other pligg site) go indexd first and when people searching my story will drop lower that other site in SERPs
And the last I still want XML Sitemap Version 1.0 and still want features something like this (see picture below)
if you really don't care about which page has higher priority and you just want variety then this will work for you: replace those two lines with this one: $pri=rand(1,1000)/1000;
Having an interface where you could have better control would be nice but I don't have the time to do that right now.
nadia
· 1 year ago
Thank for random code
... So how about V1.0 features?
nadia (sara)
· 1 year ago
Sry that double comment.
When version 1.0 release could you notify me by email (see email in comment)
And your new comment system look very nice!!
٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶. .. Cheers: Xml Sitemaps v1.0 ٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶.
All Comments
When I set up the plugin on link:
http://www.chevauxduweb.com/admin_config.php?pa...
I've on page only:
nothing found :(
Some Idea ?
On pligg 9.9... Thanks
For me don t work, i install the module, i insert the cod in htaccess, and when i run the sitemap i riceve this message:
...
http://www.pligg.ro/module.php?modul...ow_sitem...
2008-05-18T18:10:28+03:00
...
also make sure you delete the cache is you use it.
Google returned the following Warning message:
All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can't tell which are more important.
Does anyone know how to correct this?
Any guidance will be appreciated!! :-)
This is the exact formula at xml_sitemaps_main.php line 154:
$v=(time()-$link->date)/60;
$pri=max(0.0001,(( $link->comments /$v ) * 30 + ( $link->votes * 10 / $v ) + ( 100 / max(100,time()-$link->modified) ) * 60 )/ 100 );
my idea was that the number of comments it got since it was created should account for 30% of the priority, the number of votes for 10% and the time when it was last updated ( commented, voted, modified ) for 60%
I guess this isn't perfect for all sites, so just change it till you get it right for your site.
I can definitely tinker with the formula you pointed out.
I am using the RSS Import module and it randomizes the votes. Everything else will probably be close to constant values. It worked perfectly for a long time until recently.
Maybe I should shift the weight of your formula toward the number of votes since the update or # of comments is typically constant.
Thank you for your guidance!
as you can see from the formula, the number of votes and comments are divided by the link age ( in minutes ) . So for really old links that were not updated recently, with few comments and few votes the priority is very likely to be under 0.0001
And the fact that you are using the RSS import module makes it worse because it assigns votes randomly but all at the same time. So the link is only updated once when it it posted but then not updated unless someone comments on it.
Also if you are caching the sitemap you will almost never have ( depending on how long you decide to cache it ) an updated sitemap right after a link was posted ( when it should have the highest priority because it was updated very recently, and has a lot of votes)
Do you suggest that I completele re-arrange the formula to ensure that it is divided by the # of votes? Also, what do you suggest in terms of an appropriate cache time?
I have cache set to one day for a site that also uses the RSS import module. I don't think less then a day would make much sense cause I doubt google or other search engines would try to download your sitemap more then once a day and even if they do they would not start fetching your new links so soon...but it's just a guess..I may be wrong...
Here is the warning I receive according to Google Sitemaps:
"All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can't tell which are more important."
In result, if i divide by the # of votes, then i will have a better chance of receiving a unique priority. Is that correct? Am I overlooking something?
It looks like G now is very strict in using a sitemap. I haven't had no errors before, the erroors just appeared recently. Any idea to fix it. It is not actually errors but WARNINGS.
on line 154:
instead of $v=(time()-$link->date)/60;
use $v=(time()-$link->date)/3600;
you should clear the cache if you use it and resubmit the sitemap to google after this modification.
IF you still get warnings just increase the divisor ( 3600 ) until it's ok
I'm guessing that if you use a cache set for 1 day 3600 should be ok, if not you could go higher
http://patchlog.com/php/xml-sitemaps-pligg-modu...
If you want the number of votes to take a higher value in the priority you could
replace $link->votes * 10 with something like $link->votes * 35 and ( $link->comments /$v ) * 30 with ( $link->comments /$v ) * 5 . this makes votes account for 35% and comments for only 5%
You should also take a look at this :
http://patchlog.com/php/xml-sitemaps-pligg-modu...
Thx.
http://patchlog.com/php/wheres-the-xml-sitemap/
" Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. "
I have 6 sitemap sitemap-0.xml - sitemap-6.xml
This error only for sitemap-6.xml
Before I have other error and I fix it by you siad
" $v=(time()-$link->date)/60;
$pri=max(0.0001,(( $link->comments /$v ) * 30 + ( $link->votes * 10 / $v ) + ( 100 / max(100,time()-$link->modified) ) * 60 )/ 100 ); "
" on line 154:
instead of $v=(time()-$link->date)/60;
use $v=(time()-$link->date)/3600; "
and error disappear but yesturday I upgrade pligg to 9.5.5 so I see this new error (before I use 9.8.2)
79 Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help Parent tag:
Tag:
Value:
Found: url
priority
1.21323383742
Aug 8, 2008
Details 31 Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help
Parent tag:
Tag:
Value:
Found: url
priority
1.36334286505
Aug 8, 2008
Details 19 Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help
Parent tag:
Tag:
Value:
Found: url
priority
1.19110785838
Aug 8, 2008
Details 13 Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help
Parent tag:
Tag:
Value:
Found: url
priority
3.67763278809
Aug 8, 2008
Details 7 Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. Help Help
Parent tag:
Tag:
Value:
Found: url
priority
6.76048565121
Aug 8, 2008
"Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit. ”
http://www.getofftheinternet.net/sitemapindex.xml
How can I fix this? Thanks for any info.
use : $v=round((time()-$link->date)/3600,3);
instead of what you used before and let me know if you still have a problem
You should also read google help that says that a waring is just that ... it's not an error and it doesn't mean they will not process your sitemap if you have those warnings. The only problem is they don't know which is more important to you.
$v=round((time()-$link->date)/3600,3);some priority go high 2.0 or 3.0 like that and error agian
so now I change back to the original
$v=(time()-$link->date)/60;$pri=max(0.0001,(( $link->comments /$v ) * 5 + ( $link->votes * 35 / $v ) + ( 100 / max(100,time()-$link->modified) ) * 60 )/ 100 );
and no error now, the highest priority are around 0.4 or 0.5 in new story on sitemap but sometime I got warning "All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority. " in some sitemap again in sitemap-1.xml (I have 6 sitemap) but sometime no warings
sitemap-1 to sitemap-5 all priority same 0.0001 but only sitemap-6 (the latest) have 0.1 0.2 0.3 like that
I like you plugin because this is only one sitemap plugin for pligg no more out there so I love it but I don't like to always go to check in Webmaster Tools that my pligg sitemap will okay or not? Sometime ok sometime not. sometime priority go higher that 1.0 sometime all same 0.0001
I understand your formula a bit but it very hard for me or other people to understand and fix it, Can you make it easier.
I have some example very good sitemap plugin for wordpress
"XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.1.0.1 "
Very easy to config and nothing to do after that, no error
I like the option that let people set priority (see picture below)
Can you make Xml Sitemaps pligg module has option like that, If you can do that I think no more problem about Google Webmaster Tools and priority issues again
Xml Sitemaps pligg module is the Best, Cheers
Thank
... who know how to set and priorities still stay between 0-1.0
Thank
http://www.santabarbara.net/sitemap-pages.xml
thank you for your help
like this one: http://www.santabarbara.net/sitemap-0.xml
You will have to send a sitemap index to google ( http://www.santabarbara.net/sitemapindex.xml ) . The sitemap index will contain links to all those sitemaps.
My other question is do we have to submit both the /sitempaindex.xml and sitemap-XXXX.xml?
When XML Sitemap Version 1.0 release?
I'm waitting for that, so many problem here everytime when I get warning in google webmaster tools, I feel google temporaly stop index my pligg site
I find fomula that suit my site but no one suit my site, some over (1+), some less (0.0001) and I dont know much about math or this formula so I just random change the number and variable to see sitemap are okay or not
Now I get my own formula and remove $time variable because $time is the main variable that make priority change
$v=(time()-$link->date)/60;
$pri=max(0.0001,(( $link->comments /20 ) * 38 + ( $link->votes * 2 / 2 ) + ( 100 / max(100,$link->modified) ) * 60 )/ 100 );
I dont know what the meaning of number i put in there,I just put and see sitemap okay or not?
I dont care which story submit first or submit later I only want the sitemap that work proprely with google webmaster tools and let google index faster and faster, no time to wait, no time to check sitemap first before index.
Ex. If new sitemap error, Google won't index a new story that have priority problem, Google will wait until prioty or sitemap okay.
This can't wait. In real world we can't wait , who can index faster is the winner
Before my pligg site get index after submit around 15-60 minute but now after oftenly have problem with sitemap I have to wait for about 5-12 hours so people(other pligg site) go indexd first and when people searching my story will drop lower that other site in SERPs
And the last I still want XML Sitemap Version 1.0 and still want features something like this (see picture below)
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/795/image030...
replace those two lines with this one:
$pri=rand(1,1000)/1000;
Having an interface where you could have better control would be nice but I don't have the time to do that right now.
... So how about V1.0 features?
When version 1.0 release could you notify me by email (see email in comment)
And your new comment system look very nice!!
٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶. .. Cheers: Xml Sitemaps v1.0 ٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶.