There is an incredible value to having an xml file to submit to google and yahoo in order to help guide their bots through your site.
I currently use the Joomla component XMaps to auto generate the rest of the site based on menu. By inspecting the Goobot's results of my page, though, it seems that it found the message media launch page, but for whatever reason, did not scan each lesson.

I see this possibly working in one of two ways.
1. That bible study manager generates an xml file that can be submitted to google as another site tree. This would be a simple, effective solution that would not place a dependency on any other component from an install, but also from a stability standpoint.
2. XMaps has a large collection of built in plugins that add support for other components. This feature could be submitted to XMaps for consideration of a plugin, that would further the one-stop-shop nature of that well established site map utility.

The results of this would establish a healthier standing of any of our sites with search engines, it would deepen the keyword pool that would help further all of our websites into being interactive tools for the kingdom, and it would give web admin's a better grasping of their websites statistics.

It's funny that you should ask about this today, Brian. This morning I was just thinking about creating a way to create xml files of the study details - we do this for the media files - the podcasts, but not for the details.

I'll put this in as a feature request. It will either be a system plugin, or something that works whenever you save a new study. I might want it to be able to be configured for each teacher, book, series, etc - so the user has control over what gets put in what xml. That makes it more complicated but we'll see.

Might take a little time to work on as we are trying to wrap up 6.2, but will be included in 6.3.

Tom

Very cool!
I like your idea of allocating certain files to certain xml's.
My thoughts...
Either have all studies automatically be inserted into a master xml for use of either a site map, or a master blog/podcast, and then be able to allocate studies into a second, more specific xml.
Or.
Be able to select multiple xml's to populate so it is possible to have a teacher specific and a master, for instance.
What do you think?

Good ideas. I added them to the notes on the feature request on out team site.

Tom