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Hello Bruce,

I have a few more questions about how Ventrian NA news article URLs are redirected in URL Master and displayed in GoogleSiteMap.axd.  In my menu I have News Articles installed under a main folder called about.  The path therefore is "mydomain/about/news".  To simplify this URL I am using URL Master to place the module immediately under my domain so the URL displays as mydomain/news.

Yesterday I changed the SEO setting in Ventrian NA.  I selected the "shortened URL" option.  This replaces "articletype/articleview/articleid" in the url with simply "id".  Below is an example of the URL that displays for one of my articles:

http://domain.com/news/id/26/this-is-my-article-title

Here is the issue.  When I check my GoogleSiteMap.axd file, this is how the same article appears:

http://domain.com/home/articletype/articleview/articleid/26/this-is-my-article-title

Here are my questions:
1. How often does the GoogleSiteMap.axd file refresh?  My guess is that it is dynamically generated every time someone calls it.  If this is not true, how often does it refresh?

2. Is there any way in URL Master to set-up 301 re-directs for individual news articles?  If so, how?

3. How can I have the shorter URL appear in the site map (if this is possible).

In another post you referred someone to the blog at seablick.  I really like how Tom's blog entries appear.  For example, one entry shows up as:

http://seablick.com/blog/155/quality-dnn-skin-development.aspx

I see he does not even have the id/ in the url.  All he has is the numerical id and the article title.  More importantly, every one of his articles is indexed and has a Google PageRank.  Some of the blog entries are short, so they cannot be getting ranked on their own.  Did you do custom work for Tom to get his NA to perform this way?  If so, I would like to discuss this with you offline for my site.

I know it is Saturday 5 am for you.  I'll look for your answer next week.  Thanks so much and have a great weekend!

Chip

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your help with this.  I am using NA 7.55.  Forgive me if this seems obvious, but I am a beginner when it comes to web.config files.  Do you mean I am supposed to add in the option useShortUrls = "true"? I searched my web.config and only found one entry for dnnforge - newsarticles.googlesitemapprovider.  Here it is with the addition in bold:

      <add name="DnnForge - NewsArticles.GoogleSiteMapProvider" type="iFinity.DNN.Modules.GoogleSiteMap.ArticlesGoogleSiteMapProvider, iFinity.DNN.ArticlesSitemapProvider" defaultPagePriority="0.5" defaultPageUpdateFrequency="daily" includeHiddenPages="false" useShortUrls = "true" />

Is this what you mean?

On another note, I would be interested in discussing item #3 with you (the custom work you did for Tom).  I will send you a separate email about that.

Chip