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r clients - we have released RSMembership! revision 9 which comes with new features added and improved functionality:

• New user email texts are now configured in the RSMembership! language file.
  The reason this method was preferred over the Joomla standard user email is that if you were using automatic membership approval sometimes the link to the site was appended with the path to the Joomla administration panel that could confuse the end user.

• Share any type of content with memberships.
  As RSMembership! users already know, for each membership you were able to share files and folders. With the new revision, you can share Joomla! articles, categories, sections and links.

This article will answer to common questions about Joomla! sitemaps like :

• why use a sitemap?
• how to notify Google, Yahoo! and Bing about the generated sitemap?
• site verification
• sitemap updates

and at the end of the article you will find some recommendations for Joomla! sitemap generators.

Before answering to above questions, let's clarify the differences between the HTML sitemap and the XML sitemap.

Sitemaps help search engines to better understand the Joomla! site structure and also help crawlers to easier discover fresh content.

Generating your XML Sitemap for Joomla! has never been easier with RSSeo!

Enable canonicalization first

Before submitting the sitemap to search engines, enable canonicalization to avoid errors in sitemap.

Is this step important?

Canonicalization is active when a permanent redirect exists from mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com (or viceversa), so when a user types in the browser the name of your site without www in the front, he will be redirected to the www version.
If canonicalization is not enabled, both versions of the site will be indexed with AND without www, because search engines don't know which one to pick, decreasing your search engine rank.

Today we've released RSFirewall! Revision 9, which contains a new feature: it cleans the backdoored versions of Jumi from your website. You can read the changelog here.

Jumi is a very popular Joomla! component, some of our customers being already affected by this backdoor - so we added this security measure as an extra protection layer to keep our customers' websites safe.

As usual, we advise you to run the System Check and follow the on-screen instructions to obtain a better security rating on your website, keep passwords safe and always be up to date with the latest software versions and the latest threats.

We have released a new version of RSForm!Pro adding some new features to our Joomla! form manager including:

• You can export unlimited amounts of submissions with the new Ajax based export tool
• You can add multiple products in the RSForm!Pro - Paypal plugin
• You can add extra characters to the existing validation rules
• There is a new validation rule that accepts only the characters set by you
• You can use placeholders for the file attachments

Need a Joomla! form manager? Discover RSForm!Pro on the RSJoomla! demo