Adding vaultwiki articles to vB sitemap

[tommythejoat]

We had a malware attack a few weeks ago and it looks like our Google rank has fallen substantially.

I had not looked at the sitemap for quite some time so I used the link in AdminCP to edit the priorities of the existing content types and rebuilt the sitemap.

However, there is no entry for the encyclopedia and I am concerned that wiki articles are omitted from the sitemap. If searchbots follow the autolinks, it may not be all that important.

[pegasus]

Do you use vBulletin's built-in sitemap? Or do you use vBSEO Sitemap Generator?

Wiki pages should automatically appear in vBulletin's sitemaps. I just rebuilt mine to check your issue, and it added wiki pages as expected.

However, if you're using the vBSEO Sitemap Generator add-on, then you need an additional module to get it to capture wiki pages: https://www.vaultwiki.org/threads/5498/

EDIT: I checked your site and it looks like the wiki is being added to the sitemap. I think maybe you were just looking at the priorities screen and not seeing an option to manage the wiki priority. There's not currently a way to do that.

[tommythejoat]

Thanks. I was looking at the priority screen.

I assigned 0 priority to our private forums although I am not really clear what that does. I also assigned top priority to the archive since I had a recollection that it would improve search performance in the sense of how fast the bots could read us.