vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator

[dannyheath]

where can i et the one for vb 4

[djbaxter]

where can i et the one for vb 4

It hasn't yet been released to anyone except vBSEO license owners - still in beta.

[dannyheath]

ok will the 3.8 work

[djbaxter]

ok will the 3.8 work

No, it won't. You'll have to use the vBulletin version until vBSEO is released for 4.x.

[dannyheath]

ok i will have to wairt thank you

[Thomas P]

Is Bing already added instead of live.com?

[naz7]

when i click the link to the sitemap in my report. it shows 403 forbidden.
What can i do now?

[kall]

when i click the link to the sitemap in my report. it shows 403 forbidden.
What can i do now?
Re-do the install, making sure you follow every step precisely.

Are you certain your host allows mod_rewrite?

[naz7]

actually how do i know when i'm able to create the sitemap correctly?

what i get when i open the sitemap_index.xml.gz

<sitemapindex xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/09/siteindex.xsd">
−
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.myonedeco.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2010-02-09T00:23:17+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

[SVTCobraLTD]

when i click the link to the sitemap in my report. it shows 403 forbidden.
What can i do now?

Same issue here. However i get an email everyday saying it went through.

[kall]

Are you certain your host allows mod_rewrite?
And, did you upload the htaccess (or add its rules to your existing htaccess)?

[naz7]

yes, i upload the .htaccess to the forum root.

think the sitemap is generated correctly. Thanks!

Hope this will increase my site's rank.

Installed!

[hassshasss]

This hacks is excellent, would be great an update for VB4

[carolc]

Dang can't figure this out I did not change ANYTHING in the settings - the sitemaps get created OK they all go to /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/ but in the sitemap_index.xml.gz all the URL's for the 150 sitemap files show the URL as forum/sitemap_148.xml.gz ???
Show Google says "it appears your sitemap is a HTML page..''
Any idea's ??

Did you put the .htaccess file in your forum root? This will redirect Google to these URL's!

After uploading the attached file to your forum directory, rename file (delete the ".txt") so that it can be read as a .htaccess file. After that the file should be ".htaccess" in your forum root. Try that and let me know.....

Thanks I figured it out I had to modify the vbseo_sitemap_config.php file to use forum root all is ok now

I am having the same trouble as dgparent, I think. I get no errors when I run. The only gz file I see (sitemap_1.xml.gz) is in the /forums/vbseo_sitemap/data directory. Yet the "Your Google Sitemap Index URL" link leads to "/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz"

What do I need to do to fix? I do have the .htaccess file in my "forums" directory. I did not previously have one before I downloaded this mod, so I just uploaded the one provided (didn't need to modify an existing one). I don't understand what would need to be changed in vbseo_sitemap_config.php (if that is applicable to me).

On a side note, should I be able to see a legible sitemap (in xml) somewhere? If I try to view any of the gz files, they are all 'garbage'. Should there be a sitemap.xml file somewhere?

Thanks

[kall]

I am having the same trouble as dgparent, I think. I get no errors when I run. The only gz file I see (sitemap_1.xml.gz) is in the /forums/vbseo_sitemap/data directory. Yet the "Your Google Sitemap Index URL" link leads to "/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz"

What do I need to do to fix? I do have the .htaccess file in my "forums" directory. I did not previously have one before I downloaded this mod, so I just uploaded the one provided (didn't need to modify an existing one). I don't understand what would need to be changed in vbseo_sitemap_config.php (if that is applicable to me).

On a side note, should I be able to see a legible sitemap (in xml) somewhere? If I try to view any of the gz files, they are all 'garbage'. Should there be a sitemap.xml file somewhere?

Thanks
What happens if you call yourforums.com/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz in a browser?

That is the sitemap file. When someone calls it in a browser or visits it as the Search Engines do, the .htaccess redirects the call to the vbseo_sitemap location, and changes it to the .xml version, all on the fly, so the Engine indexes your /forum/ information, not your /vbseo_sitemap/ location (as all Google sitemaps have to be in the folder they are indexing).

[carolc]

What happens if you call yourforums.com/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz in a browser?



Thanks for the quick reply. I get "The page cannot be found"

[kall]

You are substituting yourforums.com for your actual domain information?

You uploaded .htaccess , and not htaccess.txt?

Are you certain your host supports mod_rewrite? http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/ has an easy test.

[carolc]

You are substituting yourforums.com for your actual domain information?

You uploaded .htaccess , and not htaccess.txt?

Are you certain your host supports mod_rewrite? http://www.vbseo.com/f77/how-check-if-mod_rewrite-working-my-site-21502/ has an easy test.

Yes, here is a link to that path on my site

Yes, I uploaded .htaccess and not htaccess.txt

Per the site you referred to, I added
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule testpage\.html http://www.google.com [R]

to the top of the .htaccess file and re-uploaded to my /forums directory. I tried testing it here... did I do that right? Still page not found.

Thanks

[kall]

Hmm.

That would suggest that mod_rewrite isn't working/enabled for your site.

See if your host can offer assistance enabling it, then re-try. :)

[carolc]

Thanks kall. I sent my host a ticket. I'll see what they say.

[kall]

Have a look in your admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo , search for mod_rewrite to see if it's enabled.

If it is there, make sure your host allows htaccess rewriteengine.

[carolc]

This looks the same as what I see when I look at the phpinfo file, yeah? When I search for "mod_rewrite", it's not found. :(

[kall]

This looks the same as what I see when I look at the phpinfo file, yeah? When I search for "mod_rewrite", it's not found. :(
Yeah, that's where your host comes in. They need to recompile PHP with the mod_rewrite extension. :)

[carolc]

I guess I'm out of luck on this one, unless you have another idea. :(

This is what my host said. "Your account is hosted on the Windows-based server with IIS6 webserver and for this reason you can't use Apache directives and .htaccess file."

[kall]

There's an extension for IIS that enables rewrites, I'll see if I can find out more for you.

[iojam]

Hello,

if your host has ISAPI_Rewrite module for IIS installed, you can use these rewrite rules:
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .*yourdomain.com
RewriteRule ^/forums/((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

(replace "yourdomain.com" with your domain name and "/forums/" with your forums folder name)

[carolc]

Thank you, but where do I put this (what file?).

[conheomap]

Hello,

Recently I got an error. I already set 25000 links and 15 secs like one of the members suggested.

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Friday, February 19th 2010 @ 02:00:08 AM
Error Date : Friday, February 19th 2010 @ 02:01:56 AM
Script : http://mydomain.com/forum/cron.php?rand=1266566407
Referrer : http://mydomain.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=45&order=desc&page=2
IP Address : xx.xx.xx.xxx
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Stheal]

i have two problems, the first one is that 301 redirect url, does not work, i want to set my forum url instade of www.asdasd.com/forum/shothreat... www.asdasd.com/forum/plugins-vbseo-help/ask-question...
the second thing is that google does not accept my sitemap, 1st its foriden (403) and 2nd a 404 error not found. i set it to .com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/index.gs or something linke that, im geting lazy almost 3 hours trying to solved the problem and nothing.. :S

[kall]

i have two problems, the first one is that 301 redirect url, does not work, i want to set my forum url instade of www.asdasd.com/forum/shothreat... www.asdasd.com/forum/plugins-vbseo-help/ask-question...
the second thing is that google does not accept my sitemap, 1st its foriden (403) and 2nd a 404 error not found. i set it to .com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/index.gs or something linke that, im geting lazy almost 3 hours trying to solved the problem and nothing.. :S
This modification doesn't do anything to your URLs. It is a sitemap generator that creates an .xml sitemap for Google/Yahoo.

[waleed sd]

I think this version is not supporting ping search engin

[Stheal]

thnx for that, and the other problem about the sitemap indexing problem? anyone knows why?

[dexterstat]

vbseo not worth the money from my opinion,today i wanted to edit my license for which i payed for 150$ and guess what: i can not edit it, because, i have to renew my license in order to edit it, so i payed 150$, and i can not use it ,i have to keep their link in my site, i can not edit my domain, tiket support real bad, what kind of service is that? that is why it is really bad to buy from other than official seller ( vbulletin) .
Good thing that from now on vbseo will be useless, vbulletin is upgrading their own seo system

[kall]

This thread is about the free Sitemap Generator.

As I said to you on vB.com, you are incorrect as to the price of renewal, and the claim that we will not transfer a license if the request comes in prior to expiry and somehow we don't get to it:

in advance: sorry for bad english.
Vbseo is the worst thing ever, if you want to edit your license, how you do in vbulletin from the members area, you have to renew you license, so you pay 150$ ( which also is way too much for what the script do)you keep thei link in the site, tiket support response untill you forget about it, and after that you have to renew to edit your license, not recemended,
Plus from now on in the next updates vbulletin is upgrading their own seo, so you really don`t need to throw away with money.
ps: i you want i sell mine
Hello,

As part of the vBSEO team, I feel I have to correct this.. the renewal is $35, not $150.

(Also, if you request a Transfer while your license is active, that transfer will be honored, even if your license was to expire prior to it being actioned.)

Regarding the differences between "vBulletin 4.0 SEO" and vBSEO, we have a feature matrix here: http://www.vbseo.com/en/feature-matrix/

@smurphy - Please feel free to PM me on vBSEO (Ace Shattock) and I can investigate your claim of a ticket that was unanswered, then you were required to renew. It doesn't sound anything like the way we operate, so I would be very interested in addressing it.

[dexterstat]

will be right back with answer , it looks like somebody deleted all my databases, nice :)

[weindians]

Edit : u r the solution when no support is there..lol

[AMG021]

I'm getting the following error. Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 110

when trying to enter vbeo sitemap control panel

[o0mohammed0o]

thanks for product ,

and we waitng for new release to vbulletin 4.0

thanks :)

[Stifler]

ya when will the vbseo sitemap for vbulletin 4.0 be released?

[Halfhidden]

Thanks so much for the mod as well as the huge support you have given it. All this for free!!
I hope you members out there remember that this software would cost an arm and a leg to buy.
Oh by the way. It was so easy to install as well.
Thanks

[weindians]

still nobody here to xplain this

fixed my self

[SMXKidd]

Who has one of these up and running? I think I have mine working, but the sitemap is nothing like the wordpress one I have so I'm thinking I didn't do something right...

[Manoel J?nior]

well. may error is onto google webmaster page.

explain.

After change this exactlly content onto /vbseo_sitemap/index.php
}
$dllist = array_values($dllist);
$pf = fopen(VBSEO_SM_DLDAT, 'w');
fwrite($pf, serialize($dllist));
fclose($pf);
$_GET['dlist'] = true;
}

my trouble with fopen error is finish.

my sitemap is correct onto my site root. I can access and down.

My error is onto google site.

/sitemap_index.xml.gz is valid sitemap entry.

but the /sitemap_1.xml.gz is no accessible to google webmaster tolls site.

how to solve this ???

Any idea???

[thedreamer09]

when will this mod be available for vb4 ?

[VBUsers]

heres an error i get when i run the sitemap generator

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT COUNT(*) as cnt,max(lastpost) as lastupdate
FROM thread AS thread
INNER JOIN tagthread AS tagthread ON
(tagthread.tagid = 1 AND tagthread.threadid = thread.threadid)
WHERE thread.forumid IN()
AND thread.visible = 1
AND thread.sticky IN (0, 1)
AND thread.open <> 10
GROUP BY tagthread.tagid;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')
AND thread.visible = 1
AND thread.sticky IN (0, 1)' at line 5
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Tuesday, April 13th 2010 @ 03:10:10 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, April 13th 2010 @ 03:10:11 AM
Script : http://www.hydrocanna.com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php
Referrer : http://www.hydrocanna.com/vbseo_sitemap/index.php?rlist=true&page=1
IP Address : 000000000000003
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Brian-B]

I installed this and it did generate the sitemaps, but the resulting URL to retrieve the sitemap is returning a HTTP 500. If it was a 404, I would question mod-rewrite not finding it properly... I did try the troubleshooting steps on their site with no luck. (Yes mod-rewrite is on, my host actually uses their own vbulletin forum with VBSEO). I'm really disappointed because I was hoping to just use this mod for now to see how it worked and then buy the full VBSEO license as my site grows...

[Jafo232]

I found this line in vbseo_getsitemap.php causing an error when a sitemap data file was large:

$dl_list = file_exists(VBSEO_SM_DLDAT) ? unserialize(implode('', file(VBSEO_SM_DLDAT))) : array();

I changed it to this:

$dl_list = file_exists(VBSEO_SM_DLDAT) ? unserialize(file_get_contents(VBSEO_SM_DLDAT)) : array();

This fixed the error. I GUESS if your running a version of PHP < 4.3 you might need the first method but honestly I see no other reason. Why make it an array, then implode it when you can grab it as a string?

Anyway, I hope this helps you guys!

[Breakpoint]

Where is version for vb 4.0?

[djbaxter]

Where is version for vb 4.0?

In Beta, not yet released to the general public unless you own a vBSEO license.

[Breakpoint]

I own a license and they didn't say anything about this, wow what some good customer support

thanks for letting me know

[djbaxter]

If you have an active license, scroll down the page a bit on the downloads page: 2.6 Beta

[howcome]

is there a way to get html links without having vbseo don't have money for vbseo right now :(

[chuckhodson]

Do we who own vb 4.0 now have to buy vbseo ? just asking guys thanks

[djbaxter]

Do we who own vb 4.0 now have to buy vbseo ? just asking guys thanks

No, you don't have to. They are separate products created by entirely separate companies.

vB 4.x has a built-in sitemap generator - no idea how good it is - never used it.

The vBSEO sitemap generator is released as a free stand-alone product but the version for vB4 is still in beta.

[Bachsau]

Did you notice, that md5_sums_crawlability_sitemap.php of current version is outdated? I just wondered about that errors when checking files after upload. Hey, if you include things like that, please take care of it. ;) Otherwise just leave it out.

[ckelley]

Installed and apparently working well....

Although I do have an issue with the "Live.com" search engine not working successfully, I'll take it.

THANKS A MILLION FOR THIS MOD!!!!

[Silver_2000_)!]

for some reason the reports list is empty

I can run the product and I can manually generate the sitemap - BUT the scheduled task doesnt seem to generate the sitemap and the reports list is empty

I have it running on another forum on the same server and its fine - tried comparing the 2 and cant see the difference

any ideas ?

[Silver_2000_)!]

bueller ?

[vBSEO]

Are other scheduled tasks on that forum working correctly?

[Silver_2000_)!]

yes - the VB emails go out, promotions work

I couldnt figure out how to simply delete the task so I could remove and reinstall the product

[vBSEO]

You can uninstall the product in admincp for that, and then reinstall it.

[Silver_2000_)!]

I uninstall-ed it and reinstalled it and set the task to run at 8 am and it doesn't seem to be working - it didnt send the email and the reports dont show in the reports view

[vBSEO]

Does it work correctly if you run generator directly via vbseo_sitemap/ interface?

[Silver_2000_)!]

looks like it started working after the uninstall and reinstall

THANKS

[JesterP]

Hi Guys,

Great mod.

I've recently converted my biggest site from Apache to Nginx. I noticed in my error logs that SE bots can no longer find my sitemap files. Nginx does not utilize .htaccess files.

Are there any instructions or has anyone successfully created a rewrite line in their nginx.conf that works with this mod?

Thank you in advance!

Jester

[Bachsau]

vbseo_getsitemap.php -> Correct MIME-Type for plain text is text/plain NOT plain/text!

Additionaly when I disable gz-compression in vbseo_sitemap_config.php, the log shows off that one of the pings is still .xml.gz, which is wrong.

And after fixing this, could you please add an option to disable those log files?

@JesterP:Are there any instructions or has anyone successfully created a rewrite line in their nginx.conf that works with this mod?You could use an alias instead of mod_rewrite. But I prefer to let it save those sitemap files to webroot directly. Just have a look at lines 22 and 25 of vbseo_sitemap_config.php.

[slimshadynd]

Hello I am using Vbseo 3.5 Gold Edition and with that vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator for vBulletin 2.5.
When i generate a Sitemap Through Vbulletin Admincp then i go to Google webmaster tool and submit my:
sitemap_1.xml.gz
And
sitemap_index.xml.gz

Sitemaps Generated by Vbseo But after some seconds the GOOGLE PLACES A RED "X"
Cross Icon under the status of EACH SITEMAP!

Now i dont know what is the error! and what mistake have i done?
It never happened with me before..Please anyone who has gone through this problem AND HAVE A FIX for this or know what is the ERROR.Please Please Help ME!
Thanks.

[djbaxter]

Hello I am using Vbseo 3.5 Gold Edition and with that vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator for vBulletin 2.5.

For vBSEO 3.5x, you need to upgrade to vBSEO Sitemap 2.6 beta.

[Saviour]

Anyone having an issue with the Moreover ping failing?
Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: Successful.
Ask ping: Successful.
Moreover ping: FAILED.
Live.com ping: Successful.

[FitgirlWorld]

I give up.... google "status" of my sitemap is just a big "X"

Google can't find it and I tried everything

[Scalemotorcars]

Anyone having an issue with the Moreover ping failing?
Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: Successful.
Ask ping: Successful.
Moreover ping: FAILED.
Live.com ping: Successful.


Same here, Moreover and Yahoo ping have been failing for about a week or so.

[Scalemotorcars]

Moreover ping is still busted.

Isn't VBseo supporting this any longer?

[iojam]

Hello,

moreover has stopped their ping service, it will be removed in the next version of vBSEO sitemap generator.

[BlackThorn]

I get this error ;

"This is not registered a member profile. Please click here and return to homepage"

I'd guess sitemap mod do not see sitemap_index.xml.gz files

[Scalemotorcars]

Can you add other ping services. I'm no expert but there has to more important search engines then the top 5 or 6 listed.

[inaka]

This mod is great. Just wanted to say thanks.
INSTALLED.

[inaka]

Quick question, if one has vBadvanced installed and has created pages from vBadvanced that technically are not part of the forum, will these show up in the sitemap?

If not, is there a way to add static pages created by vBadvanced or something else to the sitemap?

All of the pages I created in vBadvanced have links in my forum header to those pages, so if the sitemap scans the forum code, it will find them. But I just wanted to clarify this, thanks.

[appsfinder]

hi moved forum to root but when i look at the output xml file its says

<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2010-07-21T00:39:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>


should be?

<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2010-07-21T00:39:22+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>

please can anyone help?

[xml]

does it work with vbulletin4?

[iojam]

appsfinder,

make sure that you updated forums URL in vB admincp options, and then regenerated sitemap.

xml,

this version is not compatible with vB4.

[slinky]

How often do you guys run the sitemap generator? My site has over 100,000 posts and I have like 50 files that appear to 456 MB each... compressed... created each day! That's a lot of work and storage space to do daily. What are the benefits of this? It seems like a horrible shame that there isn't any way to incrementally update sitemaps. How do you guys manage your sitemaps?

[Inferno Dragon]

i got this error after installing when i run Schedule Task Everytime This Error Comes up.Please tell Me How To Fix.

vBSEO Sitemap Generator
[SECTION START] showthread archived [6,668.5Kb mem used] [289s (+254s)]
[SECTION START] member [6,828.4Kb mem used] [290s (+1s)]
[SECTION START] polls [6,856.1Kb mem used] [290s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] blogs [6,856.1Kb mem used] [290s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] albums [6,856.8Kb mem used] [290s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] groups [6,856.9Kb mem used] [290s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] tags [6,857.6Kb mem used] [290s (+0s)]
[SECTION START] blog tags [6,739.9Kb mem used] [295s (+5s)]
[addon module] vbseo_sm_vba_links.php [6,740.5Kb mem used] [295s (+0s)]

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM links_categories WHERE private = 0;

MySQL Error : Table 'forum_databe.links_categories' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Tuesday, August 17th 2010 @ 03:45:13 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, August 17th 2010 @ 03:45:19 AM
Script : http://www.mysite.com/admincp/cronadmin.php?do=runcron&cronid=24
Referrer : http://www.mysite.com/admincp/cronadmin.php?do=modify
IP Address :
Username : Admin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.90-community

[Inferno Dragon]

is there anybuddy can help me? i m waiting for reply from 2 days :(

[kall]

is there anybuddy can help me? i m waiting for reply from 2 days :(
It almost looks as though you have chosen to use the vBA Links addon module when you don't actually have vBA Links installed.

[deni_z]

Same here, Moreover and Yahoo ping have been failing for about a week or so.

Same thing happens to me.. But a great mod!

[Ansaar Media]

Great Mod,

I get this in the admincp:

This area is password protected.

Login failed
Enter your "vBSEO Sitemap Interface Access Password" from admincp:

what now?

[parscloob]

all ok but ... for non-english forum threads links is ok, but forums (and subforums) links comes short (like http://www.forum.com/a-23/ instead of that forum link) when access that link redirect to forum link.

[briansol]

If you are a vbseo customer, please open a ticket at vbseo.com for support.

[BigJohnny]

I cannot get this thing to create the sitemap files outside of the data folder.

I want it to make the sitemap.xml.gz files in my sites root, not the forum root. I want them at domain.com instead of domain.com/Forums/ but in either case the files themselves still never get generated outside of their default folder no matter what I change.

it also doesn't generate a urllist.txt

what am I doing wrong?

[BigJohnny]

my stupidity, I didn't understand how the .htacess file was supposed to work.
got'er now.

[cdoyle]

Hi,
We had this running on our 3.8 forum, and it worked great. But our host upgraded their PHP and we had to get the latest version of VB.

Is there a 4.0x version of this? If not, any plans on making one?

Thanks
Chris

[onealien]

installed and working great...setup was below average difficulty...

hope to see results soon...:up:


thanks!

[garyopa]

I been banging my head on the wall for 5 hours, trying to get this plugin to work on my server

And nothing, always the sitemap url's were not mapped correctly, and I had my .htaccess file setup fine.

Finally I came across this post:

As a temporary fix, please try this:

in vbseo_getsitemap.php

find


error_reporting(E_ALL&~E_NOTICE);


replace with


@error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE ^ E_DEPRECATED);




This save me, it should be added to the TOP post in this thread, until v2.6 is released.

This is major problem for most people on today's new servers with the latest PHP system.

See here for the original thread, that saved my day:

http://www.vbseo.com/f67/vbseo-sitemap-2-5-php-deprecated-function-set_magic_quotes_runtime-deprecated-40366/#post252157

This will stop people with messing with their .htaccess and manually copying the files from the /data directory into the forum directory, what a funny bug.

Too bad no one is answering people on how to fix it correctly!

I me posting this will helps some other people out!

[BirdOPrey5]

Forgive me if these are dumb questions but...

If this wasn't properly configured could it hurt SEO at all? I see it says Google limits it to 50,000 URL's but I like many forums have far more than 50,000 pages of threads and each page is its own URL- what will happen to threads not included in the site map- will they get removed from Google?

Thanks

[Simon Lloyd]

Forgive me if these are dumb questions but...

If this wasn't properly configured could it hurt SEO at all? I see it says Google limits it to 50,000 URL's but I like many forums have far more than 50,000 pages of threads and each page is its own URL- what will happen to threads not included in the site map- will they get removed from Google?

Thanks
The 50,000 limit is PER sitemap, i have tons of urls, so i limited mine to 10,000 per sitemap and have over 1,000 sitemaps, just install this, set it up and forget it :), yesterday's sitemap submitted 11+ million urls in over 1,000 sitemaps ;)

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks :)

[Paul M]

just install this, set it up and forget it :)
Yep, that sums it up.

[dholt]

will 3.8 work with vb 4.0 or Is there a 4.0x version of this? someone else asked this above and no answer

I saw 4.0 has a built in one but still trying to find it

found it
XML Sitemap

[BirdOPrey5]

Every night I am getting a database error, I have vBadvanced Links directory installed so I have the links directory plugin configured.... the database error is:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM ju_links_categories WHERE private = 0;

MySQL Error : Table 'juotnet_juforum.ju_links_categories' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Thursday, October 14th 2010 @ 02:02:12 AM
Error Date : Thursday, October 14th 2010 @ 02:02:13 AM

"ju_" is my table prefix but I don't have a table called ju_links_categories... the correct name seems to be: ju_adv_links_categories I assume I can just update the links director plugin php file...

[iojam]

Hello,

looks like your version of vBa Links is not compatible with add-on, you would need to disable that sitemap generator add-on.

[BirdOPrey5]

Apparently so, after updating the table name in the code to "adv_links_categories" it now gives an error that "private" is not a valid field in the WHERE clause and after looking at the database structure it seems like "private" is no longer available, it's a more complicated system based off link category and then if the category is private or not.

If I submit a sitemap without the links directory will they still remain in google because they were already indexed independently or will they get removed if not part of the official site map?

[Enfoque21]

Hi guys,
I am using
Vbulletin 3.6.4
VBSeo 3.5.2
VBSEO Sitemap generator 2.6 beta 2
VBAdvanced 2.2.1
VBA Links 2.0.2

When using the addon vbseo_sm_vba_links.php in VBseo Sitemap Generator, i get this mysql error:

<!--
Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM links_categories WHERE private = 0;

MySQL Error : Table 'xxxxxx.links_categories' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 @ 01:19:16 AM
Script : http://www.nightclubber.com.ar/foro/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php
Referrer : http://www.nightclubber.com.ar/foro/vbseo_sitemap/index.php?rlist=true&amp;page=70
IP Address : 190.244.99.129
Username : No Registrado
Classname : vB_Database
-->

[BirdOPrey5]

^ That's the same problem I was having. The plugin isn't compatible with version 2 of the links directory- it won't work.

[www.ch-joy.com]

Thank you very much Gary and experience

[godarmy]

thanks you..

[BirdOPrey5]

FYI they released the new version (3.0) a few days ago in a new thread.
Here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=253516

Even though it's listed as a 4.0 mod it is compatible with 3.8 as well.

[Simon Lloyd]

Joe, does it work for the links category?

[BirdOPrey5]

Honestly I didn't even try it... I like the idea of this mod but I ended up uninstalling without ever sending a site map to Google... virtually all my public threads are indexed by Google already and I'm happy with everything as is- I'm sure this is a quality mod but I'm afraid I'd figure a way to hurt my SEO by using it.

[Simon Lloyd]

Well it is written by vbseo but hang fire as in a while they will release their next version which at the moment is only available to vbseo customers but they have said they will release it free here.

[djbaxter]

Well it is written by vbseo but hang fire as in a while they will release their next version which at the moment is only available to vbseo customers but they have said they will release it free here.

It was released a couple of weeks back: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=253516

[godarmy]

thanks.. now work in my site :D:D:D

[Scalemotorcars]

Moreover ping is still busted.

Isn't VBseo supporting this any longer?

How do I remove the Moreover ping?

[kopukmelih]

danke das ist supper

[djbaxter]

danke das ist supper

I don't know about supper. I think it's more like lunch. But a nice lunch. Or maybe brunch.

[Ramsesx]

Honestly I didn't even try it... I like the idea of this mod but I ended up uninstalling without ever sending a site map to Google... virtually all my public threads are indexed by Google already and I'm happy with everything as is- I'm sure this is a quality mod but I'm afraid I'd figure a way to hurt my SEO by using it.

Joe, does it work for the links category?
Try to change in the php file from:
"adv_links_categories WHERE private = 0");
to
"adv_links_categories WHERE active = 1");
Works for me.

[Katelynn]

I upgraded from vB 3.7 to vB 3.8.6 and I also upgraded this MOD from 2.1 to 2.5

Question #1: Moreover failed?

Question #2: When I "run sitemap generator" .. it shows that I am missing -45,000 posts. Where did they go!?? lol

Question #3: Also I see that sitemapindex is located at http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz and all sitemaps are in root too. BUT I don't see any of these files. I am assuming the .htaccess is rerouting to the appropriate location? My forum is located in http://www.mysite.com/forum and I currently run CMPS in root, but am planning to switch to Wordpress for root. <-- Trying to provide as much detail as possible for you to help answer my questions.

My .htaccess is as follows:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.mysite.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^similarsitename.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.similarsitename.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.mysite\.com" [R=301,L]

AuthType Basic
AuthName "mysite Dev - testvb - full working dev environment"
AuthUserFile "/home/mysite/.htpasswds/public_html/passwd"
require valid-user

[AzH]

I've installed this, I have vbseo already so do not need for htaccess file, but my sitemap is not recognised. It should be here:

http://www.dead-island.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml

But it ain't.

Any suggestions?

[Ghostt]

I am lost too. ive read all the thread 2x and searched in google for whole day for a solution for the 404 not found error for the example.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz .
Ive done all that what was described here like, check chmod 777 for all folders, if rewrite work, reinstalling mod, reupload .htaccess,check htaccess with blank except the rewrite code, rewritebase ....
i need realy a solution for that error..

[humour]

Y is that this mod stops working/ends processing after certain interval ?

When it starts making sitemap of tags it creates 5 parts & than stops. This has to do with too many number of tags but still it should not freeze, anyone getting this same problem ?

Is thr any solution ?

[DJ_Rguez]

do not know what's wrong with this mod to my site that after you change your server no longer works ... Automatic report does not and when I do full manual does not aver if I can help.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/04/22.jpg

as seen in the image when you make a report of the post remains there and does nothing else.

please help me

[c0der]

thx

but last ver 2.6

where the!!!?

[TORABIYAN]

Thanks

[mikeinjersey]

just got a notification that this plugin was updated today.

What are the latest updates ?

[djbaxter]

In the first post: vbseo_sitemap-3-0 PL1.zip (51.6 KB, 5 downloads)

[Alfa1]

Somehow ask.com never dowloads my sitemap, but other search engines do. Do you have any idea why?

[ITQalam]

there is no option in Vbulletin Options About VBSeo Sitemap

can u tell me from where i get Sitemap Login access passward?

[mikeinjersey]

In the first post: vbseo_sitemap-3-0 PL1.zip (51.6 KB, 5 downloads)

so i'm guessing its mostly the same as what was released in november ?

I don't see any real specific changes since then...

Revision History
============================

11/11/2010 - Version 3.0 Released

[djbaxter]

so i'm guessing its mostly the same as what was released in november ?

I don't see any real specific changes since then...

Revision History
============================

11/11/2010 - Version 3.0 Released

I can't tell for sure what's changed but the PL releases from vBSEO are usually security updates so I installed it.

[MARCO1]

I can't tell for sure what's changed but the PL releases from vBSEO are usually security updates so I installed it.
Yes, vBSEO Sitemap Generator 3.0 PL is a security update.

[Snakefrancesco]

I have a problem:

Warning: fopen([path]\vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]\vbseo_sitemap\vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]\vbseo_sitemap\vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]\vbseo_sitemap\vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838

Warning: fopen([path]\vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]\vbseo_sitemap\vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]\vbseo_sitemap\vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]\vbseo_sitemap\vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838

[zlos]

I got it working for forums, polls & threads. Unfortunately it does not include any of my blogs into the sitemap. Since there are over 7000 of blogs, it would be nice to have it fully spidered.

Because of that I upgraded recently the blogs to the latest 2.0.3 and regenerated the sitemap. Anyway no blog results in the sitemap.

vB 3.8.7 + vBlogs 2.0.3

What kind of magic will include my blogs into the sitemap?

[kNeeLy]

what would cause this to stop auto-submitting at night? Is it because I'm still on 3.8.6 PL1? I really didn't think that would matter. I plan on upgrading to 8.7, in a few days.

It always worked fine, and I've had this installed for quite a while now, and am VERY happy with the product...but all of a sudden it stopped submitting, as I always get an email after it goes through. (usually around 2 am, my time..)

Any suggestions?

thanks!

[asd_ra7la]

Thanks!
Install

[MagicThemeParks]

Noticed Moreover has failed pretty consistently lately. Is there a fix or some suggested adjustments on that one?

[sabez_1986]

ware i find this fine sitemap_index.xml.gz

[kNeeLy]

what would cause this to stop auto-submitting at night? Is it because I'm still on 3.8.6 PL1? I really didn't think that would matter. I plan on upgrading to 8.7, in a few days.

It always worked fine, and I've had this installed for quite a while now, and am VERY happy with the product...but all of a sudden it stopped submitting, as I always get an email after it goes through. (usually around 2 am, my time..)

Any suggestions?

thanks!

Bump.

Still no luck. I can't even do a manual submit, as it just times out and gives me a server error.

I tried reverting back to the older version, no luck. I haven't installed anything or changed any settings since this was installed. This really has me confused..I'm kinda bummed, as I really enjoy having access to this mod, and would really like to see it work again.

Any one got any suggestions? :D

[kNeeLy]

Ok....nevermind...it started working again out of nowhere....whatever....

[kNeeLy]

Ok...now it's just working randomly.

lol...wtf..whatever...as long as it works sometimes...at least until I get a real vbseo.

[Jeff Bade]

Since using this for a few months now.

I am getting links in google which contain and extra space (or %20)

http://www.binderplanet.com/FORUMS%20/showthread.php?t=65130

It does load which is odd.. but the style isn't applied correctly because it can't find the images..
(remove the space and see what I mean..)

I was sure it was a setting somewhere that had a space at the end of it but I can't find it.. and everything else is working great on the site.. just started recently..


Anyone got any ideas where to look.

[Dave-ahfb]

Search Engine Bots Activity Log is empty even though I get hammered daily.

vb 3.87 pl1
vbseo - none

[Jeff Bade]

Search Engine Bots Activity Log is empty even though I get hammered daily.

vb 3.87 pl1
vbseo - none


Same here

[Jeff Bade]

Seams like us 3.8 users have been forgotten.

I'll probably use something different before switching over to vb4.
And why change what works.

[kall]

Search Engine Bots Activity Log is empty even though I get hammered daily.

vb 3.87 pl1
vbseo - none

Same here
Those reports are only available if you have vBSEO installed.

It used to say that somewhere..

[sailnet]

is anyone having a problem getting this to run with php5.3? I am testing out a new server with php5.3 and as soon as I activate this plugin my forum grinds to a halt.

[gng_arian]

Hi sorry for disturb .
i install this plugin but give"s me a error !
[SECTION START] tags [11,313.0Kb mem used] [365s (+365s)] ...

[jack-d]

Same as above.

I had this working fine for about a week and now when I try to manually run the generator I get the following error. Anyone know what this is about.

[SECTION START] tags [6,208.1Kb mem used] [6,681s (+6,681s)]
http://www.9covers.com/forums/image.php?type=dberror Database error

[MotMann]

I see, if i start manual the script:

[SECTION START] cms [7,900.9Kb mem used] [619s (+602s)]

Warnung: require_once([path]/includes/class_bootstrap_framework.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /is/htdocs/xxxxxxxxxx/xxx/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php (Zeile 598)

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/is/htdocs/xxxxxx/xxx/forum/vbseo_sitemap/..//includes/class_bootstrap_framework.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear/php5') in /is/htdocs/xxxxxx/xxx/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 598

What can i do? I use vB 3.8.1

[realmr]

I am getting error on trying to view the sitemap file :

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.


how to fix it ? I am using mysqli and eAccelerator on the server

[metalguy639]

Problem I've run across in installing this mod. I've CHMOD the data folder to 777 and followed the instructions but I see the below attached image in my admincp. In the download package there were no files for the admincp directory, were there supposed to be. Usually this sort of thing means I'm missing the admincp files but there were none in the zip download.

[realmr]

it looks like no one offers help any more for free version, in vbseo forums also they are giving help only for paid users. This sucks :(

[BirdOPrey5]

it looks like no one offers help any more for free version, in vbseo forums also they are giving help only for paid users. This sucks :(

Part of the problem might be this is an old version. See post #606 in this thread, they released a new version in a new thread.

[metalguy639]

Part of the problem might be this is an old version. See post #606 in this thread, they released a new version in a new thread.

Thanks that fixed my prob.

[misericorde]

I have V.4.1.5

It s work ?

[realmr]

Part of the problem might be this is an old version. See post #606 in this thread, they released a new version in a new thread.

Actually both the attachments are same, u can find the same attachment name :(

[BirdOPrey5]

Actually both the attachments are same, u can find the same attachment name :(

But they are providing support in that thread. At least occasionally.

[realmr]

some how the prob fixed all of its own when I tried re-install again strange :o

[Kaptan]

Creating Sitemaps according to Usergroup Permissions, I want to change Usergroup Default=(1) to (8)
Because Visitors can't see all the forums in my site.
But I created a usergroup for Crawlers can see all forums.

How can I change the usergroup settings for sitemapping?
Here is I changed the file But still generator can't index all forums:
define(VBSEO_NOTLOGGEDIN_GID, 8);

[BirdOPrey5]

Creating Sitemaps according to Usergroup Permissions, I want to change Usergroup Default=(1) to (8)
Because Visitors can't see all the forums in my site.
But I created a usergroup for Crawlers can see all forums.

How can I change the usergroup settings for sitemapping?
Here is I changed the file But still generator can't index all forums:
define(VBSEO_NOTLOGGEDIN_GID, 8);

If visitors can't see threads or forums they can't be in your sitemap. If someone follows a link to your forum from google and the page isn't accessible to them as google indexed it they can report you and google will remove you from their database.

[Kaptan]

All pages are accessible, But guests are required to login or register.
I don't think it will be a problem, because there is no HTTP error like 404 etc.
All pages are accessible after logging in.

Many sites are using "Member Bots" Mod, But i never heard this problem.
Also if this option would restricted for search engines, Why vbSeo added this definition/option on its file.
define(VBSEO_NOTLOGGEDIN_GID, 8);

Here is script explaining us it's possible, but not working..
I just want settings for this option changing default usergroup ID for Guests.

[BirdOPrey5]

All pages are accessible, But guests are required to login or register.
I don't think it will be a problem, because there is no HTTP error like 404 etc.
All pages are accessible after logging in.

Many sites are using "Member Bots" Mod, But i never heard this problem.
Also if this option would restricted for search engines, Why vbSeo added this definition/option on its file.
define(VBSEO_NOTLOGGEDIN_GID, 8);

Here is script explaining us it's possible, but not working..
I just want settings for this option changing default usergroup ID for Guests.

You can't require them to register to see posts. What googlebot sees must have the same content as a guest not logged in would see.

[Kaptan]

You can't require them to register to see posts. What googlebot sees must have the same content as a guest not logged in would see.

I can understand you, Thanks.
But a member (Developer of this product) has replied about this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=901809&postcount=14

Also Here is vBulletin Link for MemberBot:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=108070

Is vbulletin publishing mods like that (Out of SearchEngines policies) or giving permission for publishing this mods in its forums.

As I said, I just need How to change default usergroup for guests for vBseo Sitemap Generator.

Can Anybody solve that ?

[BirdOPrey5]

Listen, this is the last I will say about this, you can make up your own decision...

however this quote from your link:

There are a lot of websites out on the net that require you to register or even pay to see content. Yet, they're indexed and served in Google. If this was a rampant violation of their terms of service, then they'd clearly state it. Again, it's your choic to use this mod or not. If you are extremely worried, then don't use it. Simple as that!

Is just flat out wrong. There is no major site that does that because it is indeed the very definition of "cloaking" and will get you banned from google.

Before you accept his comment find for yourself just 1 major site that does this. You can't- because there are none. There are sites that do "tricks" but trust me there is no major site that gets their pages indexed by google and then requires you to register or pay to see them- even free registration.

One example is http://www.experts-exchange.com/. If your a computer/technology person you may often find them in google as an answer to a technical question.

If I send you a link to a "solution" say this one: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Backup_Restore/Q_27297469.html

You can't see it without registering... scroll to the very bottom... nothing.

But if you search for it in google:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=off&source=hp&q=Cloud+Backup+and+Imaging+Recommendation+experts+ exchange&pbx=1&oq=Cloud+Backup+and+Imaging+Recommendation+experts +exchange&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1067l5819l0l6002l18l18l0l0l0l0l238l2315l5.1 1.2l18l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=44341265e68b94f2&biw=1735&bih=1256

It is the first real link on the page... follow it from google.

Now scroll to the bottom.

Look- Now ALL the answers are visible at the bottom of the page. It still looks like you need to pay and register to see the answers, but if you keep scrolling they are all there.

Why? Because they HAVE to be or else experts-exchange would be banned from google.

See they use a trick- they check the page referrer in the script- if you are referred from google you get to see the answers for free. If you are referred from somewhere else, say from here, you don't get any answers.

So once again, and for the last time, no matter what someone tells you, you are not allowed to cloak content from google and that includes requiring free registration.

-Joe

[Kaptan]

Thanks for your care and opinions about Google Policies,
I asked this matter to google (as being First Party).

And My Opinion: IPB Sofware has this option as default and I know too many site always upwards of searches.
However This is not Google Policies discusscion thread, this is vbseo sitemap generator mod thread.

Also I'm still interested in for real problem,
I just need How to change default usergroup for guests for vBseo Sitemap Generator.
Can Anybody really solve that ?

[Mark_Zuckerberg]

should i have to install vbseo to use this mod or will it be integrated in the same vb version
any help will be really appreciated.

[Kaptan]

No you can use this mod without vBSeo installation.
Just Use this settings in ACP "vBSeo Installed : NO"

[Chimpie]

Is anyone else having problems with the Yahoo ping? Mine has been failing since 9/15/11.

[11133]

the addon dont ping yahoo, what should i do ?

[Budweiser]

Come on.. Where is the sitemap?. Doesn't it open up in a web browser? I couldn't open it with the older version of this and still cant after I upgraded. Here is what I believe is the sitemap URL... ( http://www.wv-music.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz ) I get a "404 not found" message. Does that look correct? I want to get it added to my google dashboard but I cant find a valid URL. Please help.

Not Found
The requested URL /w/v/wv-music.com/public/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[metalguy639]

the addon dont ping yahoo, what should i do ?

It will not ping yahoo. Its a problem with yahoo not vBSEO Sitemap. There is a thread on it on the vBSEO forum.

Come on.. Where is the sitemap?. Doesn't it open up in a web browser? I couldn't open it with the older version of this and still cant after I upgraded. Here is what I believe is the sitemap URL... ( http://www.wv-music.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz ) I get a "404 not found" message. Does that look correct? I want to get it added to my google dashboard but I cant find a valid URL. Please help.

You cannot open a gzip compressed file in your browser. Browsers do not read it like a html page. You submit the sitemap to search engines. If you want a physical page you have to enter your admincp and then go into your vBSEO sitemap in the menu and enter your password and then there is a link to view the sitemap in your browser there.

[barry g]

I have not marked as installed yet because I am not finished setting it up. I will when I do though.

[weindians]

is changing location of sitemap from root to forum root ( in setting of sitemap generator) will afftect any indexed pages... ?? i have changed n resubmitted in webmaster tools from domain.com/sitemapnames to domain.com/forum/sitemapnames.. i have more than 60,000 indexed before that... i dont think as you are not changing the urls in sitemap anyway.. it just applies to location n redirection of ur sitemaps... AM I RIGHT?

[Chase]

Is this the version for vBSEO 3.6.0?

I just upgraded and was using 3.3.0

[charalampos]

Vbseo seems to be installed perfect, no error message etc

Many thanks.

But there is no Vbseo copyright text in the botom of my forum. I didn't modify or remove any txt or php file.

Any Idea ?
Thanks in advance.

[BirdOPrey5]

This isn't VBSEO. VBSEO is a commercial product you must purchase on their website. This is simply a free sitemap generator they give way for free.

[madiconnect]

Thanks A Bunch <3

[Selene]

when I go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

and add that URL of sitemap

myforums/vbseo_sitemap/data/

and try to run a TEST of the sitemap , it thinks and the report tells me this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/03/27.jpg

I have chmodded the /vbseo_sitemap/data/ to 777

[Selene]

Anyone?

[Mopar1973Man]

Have a problem with XML files displaying properly. Like I can check my archive sitemap and it displays properly but now check the forum sitemap and the forum list is in raw form. Like the style sheet isn't loading for the forum page. I've double checked and the path is correct but it just now loading right. Help me out here...

Archive
http://forum.mopar1973man.com/sitemap_archive_1.xml.gz

Forum
http://forum.mopar1973man.com/sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz

[Mopar1973Man]

when I go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

and add that URL of sitemap

myforums/vbseo_sitemap/data/

and try to run a TEST of the sitemap , it thinks and the report tells me this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/03/27.jpg

I have chmodded the /vbseo_sitemap/data/ to 777

Did you setup the rewrite code properly in the .htaccess file?

[alhidaya]

Hello,

Sitemap Files URL :

It should be http://xxxxxxxxx/xxxx/sitemap.php not just http://xxxxxxxxx/xxxx/sitemap.

Can I Help me, the URL ?

[cowcowcow]

Did you setup the rewrite code properly in the .htaccess file?

i am getting this exact same error. followed all instructions to a T and added the mod rewrite to the bottom of my .htaccess file. I have other mod rewrites working fine in that same file.

I can access the sitemaps manually by going to the vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder - they all get generated there. but i want to automate it and i believe that involes having it being accessible from myurl/xxxxxxxx.xml.gz which i dont at the moment.

its holding me off from buying the commercial version atm and would appreciate any help.

Thanks :)

[lordi]

Hello

I have VBseo sitemap generator 3

When I generate a new sitemap it goes really WELL .. but when I click on the link of sitemap

http://xxx.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz


it gives me the following error

Error loading stylesheet: A network error occurred loading an XSLT stylesheet:vBulletin SEO: The vBSEO Solution.MyOLDdomainURL.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/sitemap.xsl


Thank you

[weindians]

you have to ask in sitemap thread.... something to do with htaccess file

[Black Tiger]

Please help! Since upgrading to version 3.0 on september 17th 2011, no sitemaps were generated anymore.

On my other forum version 2.5 is still running which is working without problems.
What's can be the problem with version 3.0?

When I run the generator manually, no sitemap is created, I only see this from the addons:
[addon module] vbseo_sm_vba.php [5,168.5Kb mem used] [19,582,651s (+19,582,584s)]
[addon module] vbseo_sm_downloads2.php [5,187.6Kb mem used] [19,582,651s (+0s)]

[Black Tiger]

Just discovered that if I delete all xml.gz files in the /data directory, I can run the generator manually. However, no search engines are pinged.
It just ends by creating the xml.gz files.

[Black Tiger]

Found another problem, now even when downgrading 2.5:
Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.myforums.org/sitemap_index.xml instead of
Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.myforums.org/sitemap_index.xml.gz
The index.xml.gz isn't created either.

[Black Tiger]

I got 2.5 working again. The downloads2.php module does not correspondent with the downloads II mod. I now used the downloads.php module.

Edit: Version 3.0 now also working ok with downloads.php module for downloads II mod.

Edit2: Installed 2.5 again, 3.0 is giving way to much errors on webmastertools like:
can't read because it couldn't read a xml file in xsl format, tags_xml gave a 404 and stuff like that.

Now I only have problem with the downloads.php addon, will fix this later, gives a parse error.

[Black Tiger]

Can anyone please help? I have RSJelle's downloads II installed.
Getting a parse error now when the files should get into the sitemap generator:
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.mydomain.org/sitemap_5.xml.gz
Line Number 11433, Column 63: <loc>http://www.mydomain.org/bbs/downloads.php?do=cat&id=1</loc>
--------------------------------------------------------------^

The ^ sign is pointing at the = sign of id=1 (look with Firefox).
Seems a semicolon is missing or something. I'm using the downloads.php addon, because if I use the downloads2.php addon, the sitemap won't even be completed.
There must be a mistake somewhere in the downloads.php addon. Any clues?

[Black Tiger]

I now remember this problem. I posted a fix for this 3 years ago. Unfortunately this mod is so badly supported, in spite of the fact that it is ported to version 3.0, the fix was never implemented.

It's the downloads.php addon which has some false xml statements.
A correct vbseo_sm_downloads.php (for rsjelle's downloads II mod) should read this (marked the changes in red):
if(!defined('VBSEO_SMDIR'))exit;
$mods = $db->query
("SELECT id,name FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dl_cats ORDER BY `id`");
while ($mod = $db->fetch_array($mods))
{
$url = $vbseo_vars['bburl'].'/downloads.php?do=cat&amp;id='.$mod['id'];
if(VBSEO_ON)
$url = vbseo_any_url($url);
vbseo_add_url($url, 1.0, '', 'daily');
}
$mods = $db->query("SELECT id as fid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "dl_files");
while ($mod = $db->fetch_array($mods))
{
$url = $vbseo_vars['bburl'].'/downloads.php?do=file&amp;id='.$mod['fid'];
if(VBSEO_ON)
$url = vbseo_any_url($url);
vbseo_add_url($url, 1.0, '', 'daily');
}
?>

Again... same problem after 3 years. I hope vbSeo will correct this some time.

[aapkae]

i have a problem

my forum running well from 2 years but someone hack my forum and trying to stop my forum

after i check that webmaster tools crawler sitemap error comes

can any buddy solve it what i have to do

i have install vbseo 3.2 and vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/05/41.jpg

[Black Tiger]

If you have installed vbSeo too, you can better ask at the vbSeo.com support forums.

[aapkae]

please sir help me to solve this issue my users are gone i have 2 thousand guest in 5 minutes and now i seen 300 only where all the guest gone

and why webmaster tools shows that error

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/05/41.jpg

i have install 2.5 goolge yahoo sitemap generator

[khurtsiya]

Everything done straight by instruction but: Sitemap file not found
Help please!

[bozzawa]

i try to install vbSEO but when i put file .htaccess in root dir my web site crash and i got error 403 forbidden ecc ecc
if i remove that file the web site will be ok

[YankForum]

just wanted to say thank you 1 more time and tell other friends that this plugin is working great , if you cant make it work you must have a look on your codes to find your mistake

[max1982]

Hi guys
I have installed the Plugin and seem every thing is working apart from Replacing URLs with page Thread Title is not working i have checked the .htaccess and seems ok. but cannot seem to find any option regarding the Replacing URLs with page Thread Title on posts can any one help or tell me what should i do?

Thanks

[need2fart]

Hi guys
I have installed the Plugin and seem every thing is working apart from Replacing URLs with page Thread Title is not working i have checked the .htaccess and seems ok. but cannot seem to find any option regarding the Replacing URLs with page Thread Title on posts can any one help or tell me what should i do?

Thanks

This is a sitemap generator. It does not include rewritten urls. :p

The full version of vbSEO includes that feature.

[akasej]

Hi Everyone -

I added this sitemap generator to my forum. Now, I am trying to submit my sitemap to google webmaster tools and I can't figure it out.

Is the "sitemap index" what I submit? If so, the url that is shown takes me to a 404(Page Not Found) Error.

Would one of you be able to tell me how to do this?

Thank you so much!

[Black Tiger]

I'm getting a often seen error that several search engines are not pinged.
Google ping: Successful.
Bing ping: FAILED.
Yahoo ping: FAILED.
Ask ping: FAILED.

As is to be read on vbseo, nothing could be done because Bing and Yahoo turned of this ping services.

However.... ask ping should still be working.
Also when I read on the vbseo forum, Bing ping IS still working this way:

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com%2F sitemap_index.xml.gz
But I can't reply there because I don't have vBSeo itself, only got this sitemap generator.

When I'm going to have a look into the code, I see this:
$vbseo_stat['pingbing'] = vbseo_sitemap_ping_one(
'http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap='.urlencode($url),
'Thanks for');

Is there no way to change those last lines so Bing will work again with the code supplied above? Or maybe I can put my forum url hardcoded in this code so it matches the working link mentioned aboven. But how would I have to change this exactly?

[Smitty]

Well.... I installed this about a month ago. For me it pings both Google and Bing. I did look at the output and the sitemap_index.xml.gz points to the sitemap files being located in my forum root rather than /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/

I don't know enough to know what the scoop is, but after I run a sitemap, which I do about every 3 to 5 days, I *immediately* copy the sitemap files to my forum root with a 1 line "script" via ssh. This is an old mod and it hasn't been updated in a very long time so....

That said, I do not have vBSEO installed, so I may have missed something in the config. when I installed it.

I can not say whether a sitemap in a forum is important or not - I did it for the heck of it and haven't really noticed any difference. Google and Bing crawl either way.

A last thought is that many people argue (I believe correctly) that sitemaps are not of of significant value. Once a search engine "sniffs" your site it will crawl it. As long as you have laid out your site navigation well it should find everything. Maybe not as fast as you would like (and sitemaps do not give you a "magic" lift in the serps or a "faster" crawl), but I finally decided it can't (shouldn't?) hurt so I installed it and included it in my weekly schedule.

As always - YMMV

By the way - I decided to take a look at the index files. Despite what you set in the vBSEO preferences for the sitemap(s), it sets *yearly* as the update frequency. Not Good. After seeing that I may stop using it.

I think that right now, 20 September 2012, that this mod is seriously flawed.

[Smitty]

I did find one thing in the vbseo_sitemap_config.php file: //define('VBSEO_DAT_FOLDER', dirname(__FILE__) . '/../'); // choose this to place sitemap files directly to your vB root which I un-commented. I'll look to see if it works next time. But - I still have a *serious* issue with the <changefreq>yearly</changefreq> for every thread, etc. being marked as a yearly update. That doesn't make sense in a forum where many threads are updated daily, not to mention it shows that the vBSEO Sitemap options in the admin control panel do not necessarily do what you set them to do.

[Vcize]

I submitted the /sitemap_index.xml.gz file to google and it does not appear to be crawling the children. It just shows them all as "pending".

I submitted the index about 3 days ago. When I tested the index file it showed fine, and it's not showing any errors. See the image below.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/10/41.png

[Vcize]

I submitted the /sitemap_index.xml.gz file to google and it does not appear to be crawling the children. It just shows them all as "pending".

I submitted the index about 3 days ago. When I tested the index file it showed fine, and it's not showing any errors. See the image below.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/10/41.png

Can anyone help with this? Is this expected behavior? It's still sitting like that and pages don't seem to be getting indexed at the rate they should be.

[Apexi]

Great hack.... or not

Warning: fopen([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838

Warning: fopen([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838

[kall]

Great hack.... or not

Warning: fopen([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838

Warning: fopen([path]/vbseo_sitemap/data/downloads.dat) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1836

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1837

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 1838
Great reading of the install instructions.... or not.

[yahsuah]

Thanks for this mod :)

[Chase]

Is this mod fully compatible with vBSEO 3.6.1?

[djbaxter]

Use the latest version of the sitemap from vBSEO and then yes, it is.

[Chase]

Is the mod version 3.0 (from here) the latest version or is there something newer at vbseo.com?

[Brandon Sheley]

Is the mod version 3.0 (from here) the latest version or is there something newer at vbseo.com?

3.0 is the latest
http://www.vbseo.com/f5/vbseo-search-engine-xml-sitemap-3-0-gold-released-46425/
last time I checked, even if you went to the vbseo downloads, it was redirected to the vb.org thread. :up:

[Chase]

Thank you :D

[djbaxter]

Is the mod version 3.0 (from here) the latest version or is there something newer at vbseo.com?

vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap 3.0 PL1 is the latest version.

3.0 is the latest
http://www.vbseo.com/f5/vbseo-search-engine-xml-sitemap-3-0-gold-released-46425/
last time I checked, even if you went to the vbseo downloads, it was redirected to the vb.org thread. :up:

No. It downloads from the vBSEO Downloads page for anyone with an active vBSEO license.

[Brandon Sheley]

No. It downloads from the vBSEO Downloads page for anyone with an active vBSEO license.

ah, they must have finally changed that
good to know

[xlguy]

So is the .htaccess file in this plugin wrong? I just installed it and I can see the sitemaps have been created in my /data folder, but I noticed the instructions/options page states:

By default the vBSEO Sitemap files will be located in your forum root. Use this field to specify a different location, for example, your site root: http://www.yourdomain.com

This isn't true though. Also, I think there must be something wrong with the .htaccess file that they provide you, because Google Webmaster Tools gives a 404 error as it's trying to access the forum root.

What file exactly are you meant to submit in to the Sitemap box on Google Webmaster tools?

[xlguy]

Ok updated advice:

Do a check to see if your rewrite is working properly, so in .htaccess add:

RewriteRule ^/rwtest http://www.google.com [R]

Then go to www.yourdomain.com/rwtest and it should redirect you to Google. If it doesn't then it might be that your host hasn't setup .htaccess properly and you might need to add the rewrite stuff to your httpd.conf file or get them to enable .htaccess.

Once you get test running then this worked for me:

RewriteRule ^/((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Then at Google, for the Sitemap, enter:

http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

And test it, should work now.

[dany_danay]

If i have VBseo license is this necesary or this is in vbseo??

[djbaxter]

If i have VBseo license is this necesary or this is in vbseo??

If you have an active vBSEO license, I believe you can download a later version from vBSEO. It is not part of the standard vBSEO installation.

[bada_bing]

We are noticing that the cron job to execute the sitemap is failing and we are receiving this database error, anyone seen this before?

[SECTION START] tags [10,725.2Kb mem used] [1,364,872,495s (+1,364,872,495s)]
Database error
The Our Site database has encountered a problem.
Please try the following:
Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
Open the www.michiganreefers.com home page, then try to open another page.
Click the Back button to try another link.
The www.oursite.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

[Alfa1]

It seems vbSEO has been abandoned.
Meanwhile the search engine landscape is radically changing.

[Black Tiger]

Really a pity. Search engines aren't notified anymore either.:(

[dfe]

Just noticed this error on Google Webmasters:

Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

[khalled]

Just noticed this error on Google Webmasters:

Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

Also i suffer from that how we cona solve this problem

[da_judge]

seems vbseo.com is gone ?

[Simon Lloyd]

It is gone but this plugin works as a stand alone :)

[Ashar]

how to install this tutorial pleas

[Ghostt]

does it work also with big boards?

how to set up on big boards?
genera6e needs reallly long..
run cron every 10 min? eg.

[junaidcsp]

Hello. Im using vb4.2.2 . when i install vbseo and generate xml . it shows that site map has been generated in reported but not in real. the .gz files are not created and there sitemap is not working.
some one plese help

[Ghostt]

important question: how to add language specific code to tell google which language:


<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<url>

<loc>http://www.clientsite.com/</loc>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://www.clientsite.com/"/>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="http://www.clientsite.co.uk/"/>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-au" href="http://www.clientsite.com.au/"/>

</url>

</urlset>

more info here: http://shimonsandler.com/seo-for-international-websites/

[hostmela]

Unsupported file format

Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

[Ghostt]

???????????????????

[Alfa1]

Here you go: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202296

[Ghostt]

sorry this is not what im looking for.

[Goomzee]

when i click generate report
[addon module] vbseo_sm_videodirectory.php [7,923.2Kb mem used] [4,148,439s (+4,148,433s)]

[Simon Lloyd]

You dont have enough php memory allocated to perform the task.

[Diablo-Sat]

i have this installed but dosent generate itself even tho its set at 2 am

[v34ru]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

This is a rule for htaccess. And if my forum works on the basis of ngnix, how it will look in the rule for ngnix?

[Goomzee]

You dont have enough php memory allocated to perform the task.

how much memory required to run this query

[Brandon Sheley]

how much memory required to run this query

more then this on your setup ;)

[7,923.2Kb mem used]

[Calahan]

My sitemap_1.xml.gz has some links like

www.mydomain.com/a/index2.html
www.mydomain.com/a/index3.html
...
...

and I can't explain myself where they come from.
They all end up in 404 which create a lot of Google errors.

Does somebody know what kind of links are these and how I can delete this URLs from the sitemap?


Thanks