Installed SEF Service Map 2 to Generate Sitemaps for my Blog

Written by Renato Cruz Sogueco

Friday, 12 December 2008 12:39

I tweeted earlier regarding my dilemma of having bad URLs crawled by google since I changed a Joomla configuration that allows you to have search engine friendly URLs. For example, rather than renatosogueco.com/index.php/80-asae-news/98-technology-section, the change now looks like renatosogueco.com/asae-news/technology-section.html

Anyways, google doesn't like change it doesn't know about it. You literally have to tell google something has changed or it will continue to assume all is peachy. My bad. So, I installed this great component called SEF Service Map 2 which basically produces sitemaps as your site changes. It even uses a server which pings your site to confirm pages do exist and updates your sitemap for you. Of course, you'll still have to submit your Sitemap to google via the Webmaster tools. I'll update you on whether this easily eliminates those pesky bad URL errors!

Following is more info on SEF Service Map 2

SEF Service Map 2 (with PingBack system)

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SEF Service Map 2 is a Joomla 1.5.x component, which aim is to create a complete map of the site. Here are the basic possibilities: - SEF Service map creates three kinds of site maps: HTTP, XML and TXT; - SEF Service Map is the only active site map available. Thanks to a built-in PingBack mechanism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback ), the site map can actively report (ping) new or modified items to google.com, yahoo.com and other services. Thanks to that, indexing robots (spiders) will visit your site much more often and the site ...

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