MrNase

please make sure that you uploaded new files - the line numbers correspond to the v1.0 of sitemap generator.

BrentWilson
When sitemap generator submits your sitemap to google, it DOESN'T mean that your pages will be immediately crawled. But this does help google crawler to know the list of pages for your site when it will start indexing it.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...cs/en/faq.html :

sorry for my noob question, but i want to submit my sitemaps to both google and yahoo manually

which one is for google and which for yahoo?

i have:
sitemap.txt.gz
sitemap_1.xml.gz
...
sitemap_9.xml.gz
sitemap_index.xml.gz

in my data dir

can anybody help?
thank you in advance :)

Are you sure that it's not a PHP5 compatibility issue?

If we manually add the sitemap to Google, what URL should we be using?

I used http://www.mysite.com/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz (which works in my browser), but I got an HTTP 500 error status when I checked Google.

I only submit sitemap_index.xml.gz. In fact I modified the ping function to only ping that file as well.

the xml.gzfile is for google and the txt for yahoo.

vBSEO Staff

we stille got the Problem with the htaccess file if useing vBSEO and the Google verification file!

I thought the latest files were already up.. Nevermind, it's working ;)

How can we be sure the files get submitted to Google?



Edit: Seems to be working.. my sitemap was verified :)

The sitemaps are stored under forum-root/vbseo_sitemaps/data

Google writes in its FAQ:

Denied URLs
Google has detected some URLs that appear to be at a higher level or different domain than the Sitemap file location. Note that you will not see all denied URLs listed. Rather, Google lists three of them to give you an idea of what types of URLs are being denied. If you receive this error, try moving your Sitemap file to a higher location in your site and submitting again. For instance, if your Sitemap is listed under http://www.example.com/mysite/sitemap.xml, the following URLs are not valid for that sitemap:

http://www.example.com/ - it's at a higher level than the Sitemap
http://www.example.com/yoursite/ - it's in a directory parallel to the Sitemap
http://www.example.com/mysite/yoursite - it's missing the trailing slash

https://www.google.com/webmasters/si...bmit.html#ping

That seems to be a major problem, doesn't it?

The .htaccess file allows http://www.example.com/forums/sitemap.xml.gz to work.

I hacked mine and moved them to the root folder. However, that presents a whole new set of problems I have to deal with, not hack release material. no, I didn't set pubic_html writable. :p

But anyway, I thought they had this faked, it apprears to need to be falked from the root folder.

Are you using their .htaccess file?