At first i had decided to start a forum website using Wordpress. But when my forum is ready after hard working i went to submit it’s sitemap to google Search Console. But, even after about 10 days it wasnt accepted!! Which usually gets submitted in seconds and also gets indexed [eg: Google’s Blogger sitemap] .Then i thought to go ahead with Xenforo 2 forum software to launch my forum. And still the same problem, even xenforo’s sitemap wasnt getting submitted!!! Can anyone tell me what i’m doing wrong or whats wrong with my sitemap??
I have installed xenforo on a trial paid hosting and then submitted the sitemap, which got submitted in seconds and i was able to see my site on google’s search results!! But its a trial and as im a student i cant afford it But when i saw such unlimited web hosting for free i was excited to get the benefits of it… but am not able to :neutral:
@AXONUS said:
At first i had decided to start a forum website using Wordpress. But when my forum is ready after hard working i went to submit it’s sitemap to google Search Console. But, even after about 10 days it wasnt accepted!! Which usually gets submitted in seconds and also gets indexed [eg: Google’s Blogger sitemap] .Then i thought to go ahead with Xenforo 2 forum software to launch my forum. And still the same problem, even xenforo’s sitemap wasnt getting submitted!!! Can anyone tell me what i’m doing wrong or whats wrong with my sitemap??
I have installed xenforo on a trial paid hosting and then submitted the sitemap, which got submitted in seconds and i was able to see my site on google’s search results!! But its a trial and as im a student i cant afford it But when i saw such unlimited web hosting for free i was excited to get the benefits of it… but am not able to :neutral:
Sitemap rules are being maintained by sitemap.org it have some limits like
50,000 URLS max or 50MB in Size
it should be in XML utf-8 encoding not in HTML or PHP
These are main rules for Sitemaps keeping in mind create a sitemap like http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml in Following format <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=1</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=2</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=3</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=4</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=5</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=6</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=7</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=8</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=9</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=10</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=11</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=12</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=13</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=14</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=15</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=16</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=17</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=18</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=19</loc></sitemap><sitemap><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/sitemap.xml?page=20</loc></sitemap></sitemapindex>
in Sitemap indexing index your posts or pages in following format <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"><url><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/posts/</loc><lastmod>2018-04-16T07:03:46Z</lastmod></url><url><loc>http://forum.gunners.cf/pages</loc></url></urlset>
Hope you got it otherwise use some services to create sitemaps and upload it to your site!
But when i saw such unlimited web hosting for free i was excited to get the benefits of it… but am not able to :neutral: