Today we are glad to announce that the built-in sitemap provider is available for Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke. Actually the provider is inspired by the post Creating a Sitemap Provider For Your Module. Thanks Chris' efforts and great tutorial. From the guideline, I knew that in DotNetNuke Core 5.3 there was some work done around the Core search engine sitemap provider that was referred to as "The sitemap now allows module admins to plugin sitemap logic for individual modules" in the release notes. So modules that have many pieces of content on a single page (Ex. Forum, Blog, Articles, etc.) can be picked up by the search engine sitemap provider. The basic flow is so simple and straightforward that we just took some minutes to implement it.

NOTE: Although I don't want to cover it about how to implement it in great detail here, you can refer to the guideline for details.

Overview

This awesome utility provides the sitemap for the Ultimate DNN Blogging Module - SunBlogNuke.

Requirement

Make sure that our blog module - SunBlogNuke have been running in your website before installing this provider.

Compatibility

compatible with DNN Versions 5.3+

How to apply it in your dnn website?

Now let us go through the awesome applying process with some simple steps as follows:

  1. Get the PA from our download page
  2. Install it like any extension in your dnn website
  3. Simple go to the Admin –> Search Engine SiteMap tab for a portal that contains your module populated with content (locally) and clear the cache for the sitemap module (you may need to completely clear the site cache). You should be able to see the SunBlogNuke Sitemap Provider located in the data grid within the module as screenshot below:

    Search Engine SiteMap Module

  4. Click the Sitemap URL link (also located in the module) to validate our blogging module is exposing your posts to the sitemap.
  5. Next you feel free to submit the update sitemap to any Search Engine like Google or Bing.

Well, that is all. Hopefully you can start taking advantage of this handy provider to enhance SEO and bring lots of traffic for your website.