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Installed easily.
Setup was confusing because I was not familiar with Yahoo Sitemap and the mambot did not explain it clearly enough for me.
There is only one field to fill-in on the mambot: "YahooSiteMap Key"
If you hover over the that word, you get a popup example of the YahooSiteMape Key. The example shows a number like this "d08ed6cg02tt988c".
Then sign up for Yahoo Site Explorer at: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites.
Put in your website's URL. Then hit "Authenticate". This will display some key numbers. Choose the short number that looks like the example you get from your mambot when you hovered over "YahooSiteMap Key."
In yahoo you will see:
"If you have problem with downloading the authentication key, please create a text file named as y_key_e727fd6a45f03ea1.html, put this string d08ed6cg02tt988c into the file." The short number "d08ed6cg02tt988c" is the key you need for your mambot. Go back to your mambot and put in the key.
I use Open-SEF which generates a new SiteMap Xml file every week. The file is called “google_opensef.xml”.
Back at Yahoo Site Explorer, go to "manage" your site URL. There you can enter the path to the xml file created by Open-Sef. I put in the path to my google_opensef.xml file, and it worked with Yahoo. For example, my path is:
http://www.MyDomain.com/components/com_sef/google_opensef.xm.
I rated this component as Excellent, not because the component/bridge/wrapper is so good, but because it lets us use PhpGedView, which is outstanding for genealogy.
This component, module, and search bot installed easily.
I had one little problem because I use shared hosting and the mySQL server is different than the website server. This bridge does not have anyplace accept that information, so the bridge would not work for me, until I created a hack. The hack is really simple and can be found at:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,164628.msg791570.html#msg791570
Two info items of note:
a) The description says that it will create a menu of content items. It appears that it will menu content and only content items. You will need other menu items (outside of Moscmenutree) to access your joomla components and non-content items.
b) The root of Moscmenutree displays a colored link that leads back to the author's website. Authors do heroic work and deserve their credit, but some of your public users might get a surprise detour to the authors website.
MosCmenuTree is intend only for content only! You can also embed MosCmenuTree anywhere in your content with the use of MosModule. MosCmenuTree also can be run with several copies of itself and it will run without any conflict!
Thanks for the review.
