Question Sitemap Generation Report

[SemiWiki]

On some reports the Tag URLs are not being reported. All of our articles have tags and we publish 2-3 new articles per day. What am I missing here?

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Tue, May 26, 2015 1:13 am
Hello,

Your sitemap for SemiWiki.com (https://www.semiwiki.com/forum) has been generated,
and submitted to selected search engines.

Summary:
Custom URLs: 0 - +0
Member Profile URLs: 18,263 - +9
Show Thread URLs: 1,807 - +0
Forum Display URLs: 200 - +0
Poll Results URLs: 10 - +0
Member Profile Album URLs: 212 - +0
Social Group URLs: 7 - +0
Social Group Discussion URLs: 3 - +0
Tag URLs: 4,054 - +0
CMS Content URLs: 3,483 - +5
CMS Section URLs: 102 - +0
Total: 28,141 - +14



Regards,
SemiWiki.com System

 

[Fillip H.]

The Tag URLs are only for new content tags. You might be misunderstanding how Tag URLs work - they go to the search page for that tag, e.g. dragonbyte-tech.com/tags/sitemap/ ( http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/tags/sitemap/ ), not to new pages being tagged with that tag

 

[SemiWiki]

Okay, thank you. The latest report says that there are -2 tag URLs. Why is this negative?

Summary:
Custom URLs: 0 - +0
Member Profile URLs: 18,269 - +6
Show Thread URLs: 1,808 - +1
Forum Display URLs: 199 - -1
Poll Results URLs: 10 - +0
Member Profile Album URLs: 212 - +0
Social Group URLs: 7 - +0
Social Group Discussion URLs: 3 - +0
Tag URLs: 4,052 - -2
CMS Content URLs: 3,487 - +4
CMS Section URLs: 102 - +0
Total: 28,149 - +8

 

[Fillip H.]

While I have not looked into the explicit workings of the vBulletin tagging system, I believe this is because a piece of content that was the sole source for a tag was deleted.

For example, if I tag this thread with DBSEOSitemap and then delete this thread permanently, there will be no more references to the tag "DBSEOSitemap" and as a result, vBulletin likely deletes it from its list of content tags.

That would be a pretty effective database space saving measure, since there's no point in giving users the option to search for tags that vBulletin knows has no results