So sadly there isn't any information about Ning 3.0 Sitemaps and the sitemap.xml route does not work in Google Webmasters so our only solution I could find at this moment is adding sitemaps through RSS feeds. I posted a Sitemap Hack a few years back which is basically what we will be doing here. Here is how to do it.
The Logic Behind this: Sitemaps are XML. RSS feeds are XML RSS Feeds can be Sitemaps
Step One:Go to http://ctrlq.org/rss/ and enter site:YOURNETWORK.ning.com to pull all recognized RSS feeds from your site (your site must be public to do this)
Step Two: Right-click on RSS FEED link and paste everything after the siteurl to a note document like so
You'll get URLS similar to these:
http://www.YOURNETWORK.org/activity/log/rss?sitePageId=6633869%3ASitePage%3A9
http://www.YOURNETWORK.org/blog/feed/all
http://www.YOURNETWORK.org/photos/feed/all
Step Three: Paste the parts of the URL after / to Webmasters
Known Feeds which should work on all Ning sites...add these to your sitemaps page in webmasters:
blog/feed/all
photos/feed/all
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me too... hoping this will inspire some inspection by Ning, but these days I just push subliminal messages
Great tip!
JF Thank you for making it simple for even ME to understand. Awesome. Done. Thanks again
How has this worked out for everyone?
Thanks for the help !
Google just doesn't seem to know of my network !
has your method worked? did it help ?
still seems to be working for me..
great
i'm trying now to do the same :) let's hope it works too !
I'm desperate, I submitted through RSS feed 270 pages, Google processed everything and decided to index 4 of them. Do you have any idea how I could solve this dramatic issue ?
Hi Jfarrow,
This is an excellent tip for working around the XML sitemap file, quick and easy, index pending and so lets see how this goes but thanks for sharing and have a great weekend.
Best Regards,
Sir Gissa
Hi Jfarrow,
2 out of 16 indexed so far so very happy this is moving along in the right direction!
Best Regards,
Sir Gissachance
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