Submitting your site maps to the search engines

Why should we submit our sitemaps to the search engines?

Submitting a site map of your website to the search engine facilitates the indexing of your contents by the search engines. To do so for Google simply navigate to this URL https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home and create an account.

Once you have done so there are a few more steps you will need to do.

Add the google meta tag to the files in the following locations on your PHPbb system

Assuming your are using prosilver as your theme :

Navigate to <system root>/cache/tpl_prosilver_overall_header.html.php
Add the tag provided by Google Meta Tag to the portion just below the <head>tag (This will update the cache)
Navigate to <system root>/style/prosilver/template/over_header.html
Add the tag provided by Google Meta Tag to the portion just below the <head>tag (This will ensure the google meta is still shown once the current cache expires)

Verfiy that you own the site with Google https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home

Google will start indexing the your PHPbb forum site.

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