Club Management Services

This module creates, based on setting provided by the user, an XML formatted site map according to the standards set by sitemaps.org. This sitemap is useful for submitting to the webmaster site management tools provided by search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo to help manage web site listings and help get better rankings.

XML sitemap is available only in the advanced package.

To enable this module, like any other, go to "Administer > Site building > Modules" and scroll to the bottom of the page and click all five associated check boxes. Also, a dependency for this module is the "Taxonomy" module which is higher in the list in the "core" set of modules, that must be enabled too.

After the module is enabled, it must be followed by the routine step of going to the user permissions at "Administer > User management > Permissions" and giving one or more roles access to configure the module.

The permitted users can now go to "Administer > Site configuration > XML sitemap" and see all the tools and configuration options available within it.

The front page is basic configuration options setting up how the sitemap is built. Most of those options are perfectly acceptable to use as is. The only things you may want to change is to set the frequency with which your front page changes. On some sites it's constant, on some it never changes, so set your based on the average of how often it changes.

The next set of tools are search engine submission options to autosubmit the site map to search engines. If you are running an active forum, or other such interactive features, I would highly recommend not submitting every time content changes. Even with a standard web site I wouldn't recommend it, but if you want to the option is there. Submitting too often never helps.

Lastly, there are tools to handle the sitemap manually. These tools allow for manual submissions, as opposed to the aforementioned automated submissions and the ability to delete cached files to rebuild the sitemap completely.