Article Directory Sitemap

As I mentioned yesterday, I have now added a text file sitemap to my Article Directory. This was harder than anticipated due to all the rewrite rules being in encrypted files, so I basically had to guess them. I've submitted it to Google webmaster tools, so hopefully any errors will show up there.

The pages I've added to the sitemap are Profile pages, Category pages - although, as with the web directory, I think modifications will need to be made for categories with multiple pages - and the Article pages.

EDIT: Okay, after submitting it to Google, one problem has cropped up - too many URLs. It seems you can only have a maximum of 50,000 URLs in one sitemap. I've modified the generator so that it now makes two sitemaps - the original one which holds articles and categories, and a second sitemap that holds profiles.

New sitemaps

I've managed to make a text file sitemap generator, which admittedly currently needs running manually every time I want to update it, at least until I get the permissions sorted out, at which point I'll do it by cron job instead. This has some advantages over the dynamically created ones. For instance, one the file is updated, no further usage is put on the database.

Currently, I've added three to my main site:

DirectoryGold Sitemap: This lists the details and category pages of the web directory, although as yet not the additional pages some categories require.

Flash Games Sitemap: This is a listing of all the game pages of the currently active Flash games on the games portal. I'll probably add the categories to it also, then look into adding other parts.

ScriptsGold Resource Repository Sitemap: This lists all category and details pages for the resource repository.

One area I haven't done yet that needs doing is the Article Directory. Given the different types of pages and complicated mod_rewrite instructions, this will take a bit longer.

Another possibility is to also to use this to create an HTML page with actual live links to the pages also.

Article Directory Twitter Feed

I've added a Twitter account for my article directory. This is tweeting from the directory's RSS feed, although I admit I'm not sure what logic it's using. Supposedly, it should be posting the most recent feed every hour but, so far, only one tweet has been published, and that isn't the most recent. Decidedly odd.