With DBSEO you just submit the .php sitemap link to webmaster tools. It just like submitting an .xml only better since you submit just one .php link and it finds all the individual .xmls from it.

I am aware that this mod is no longer supported by the developers. hoping someone might have seen this and know a solution. i have a problem that randomly started happening with vbseo sitemap generator -- nothing changed on my site which is running vb 3.8.7 pl5

Sometimes the sitemap doesn't completely generate when the script runs for that at 2am or whatever. When it fails, I get zero error notifications. when going to mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz it says "sitemap file not found". The vbseo_sitemap folder contains the sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz file. Normally it should contain sitemap_forum_2.xml.gz and sitemap_forum_3.xml.gz as well. plus sitemap_index.xml.gz should be there.

A file is in that directory called progress.dat. It's as if the script starts running but can't finish. But no errors whatsoever. I checked the webserver error logs, and PHP error logs, and no problems

For years, every day my vbseo sitemap generates perfectly at 2AM on the dot. Now it fails almost every other day. The only solution to the problem is to manually re-run the sitemap generator . This always fixes the problem, and NEVER fails when I run it manually. So i'm wondering why the manual option always works yet the automated one fails basically every other day. Wouldn't it be basically the same code that executes?

thanks for any suggestions, greatly appreciate the help

So this is not working anymore? Need a sitemap builder.

For vb 4.2.2 PL4

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=308615
They have a sitemap.. Best part is, developer supports the same and can be trusted..

This still works fine. If you get time outs when generating just make smaller sitemaps. You will generate more xml files but each one will be smaller.

So your using this with vb 4.2.X? If you are please point me towards any code changes. I want to use this on my 4.2.X forum

Hi there i'm getting the database error when i try to run it manually. Does it still work as a scheduled task?

I know that is no longer supported the vBSEO, but many still use it and would like to exchange some experiences.

Recently I again installed vBSEO along with sending sitemap on my site and I've had very good results on Google, but Google Webmaster is not indexing my pages many as you can see in the images below:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2015/06/21.png
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What should I do to improve my index pages? How to know for what reason it has not indexed the other pages?

How long has it been you re-installed? Also, Have you added each entry to you robots.txt?

Btw be careful using the words VBSEO around here. There are anti-VBSEO armies. The war never ended for them.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2015/06/7.jpg

Same problem for me too, submitted about 200 and indexed only 3! Hmmm.

I reinstalled makes about 1 month because I have acquired vBET translator. My robots are wide open:

And what do you mean by: "Btw be careful using the words VBSEO around here. There are anti-VBSEO armies. The war never ended for them."

Recently I know that Google changed its SEO mechanism, I think it reflected a lot on vBSEO. It remains we wait the comments from people who understand one few more SEO than us to be able to help us.

I for what ever reason decided to go to my manage domains page and just decided to click away to see how google was doing with crawling my site and such..

Well I noticed that for some reason google was saying that there is an error and was not able to crawl my site and forums as well as not being able to access the sitemap...

I believe its something to do with google themselves, I wouldn't worry to much about it, wait a few days maybe a couple of weeks and then see if they are still having problems with the sitemaps....

Please not, that was the issue with me it could of course be something completely different with you.

Yes, Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain little better.
But still i am debating if i should stay with this mod or move to DragonByte SEO Lite if it will be more better.

A few things... You probably have duplicate content if VBSEO isn't configured right. I have close to 100k pages indexed and the number is going up.

It takes a lot of time for search engines to index unless you are getting lots of traffic. I get lots of traffic.

• Your pages will be penalized if they do not have a mobile version per Google's highly publicized recent update. You can purchase a responsive skin but no mods will work with a responsive skin.
• Set your archive options to 301 Redirect vB's Archive Thread Pages. If you don't you will have duplicate content and will have pages dropped from indexing.
• Turn on Cleanup HTML Code.
• Make sure Replace the 'META DESCRIPTION' Content is set to yes
• Add rel="nofollow" to ALL External URLs set to yes
• Enable Canonical URLs must be set to yes
• Inside your sitemap settings set Include Forum Display Pages to no
• Inside your sitemap settings set Include Show Post Pages to no
• test your site score in google pagespeed. A low score means low priority being indexed and Google shows you in search results less even if you are indexed. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

I previously was using bad DBSEO did not like, was not quite indexing my pages, some bugs and every week had a version to download.

The DBSEO support is only made out of vBulletin and also did not like it, I preferred to leave and return to the same vBSEO unsupported seems much higher.

So far there had Google messages about duplicate content, it is working very well.

You need to add individual entries to your robots.txt for search engines like ASK.COM and others that don't have webmaster tools you can directly submit sitemaps in. That will help a lot. Believe it or not search engines actually crawl each other so getting listed in one helps you rank in another.

The syntax is like this:
The anti-vbseo armies will be here soon. I wish you hadn't done that.

This is not going to fix itself. VBSEO will not help you. You need to figure out what is keeping the search engines from crawling... Start with making sure your site isn't being gzipped (compressed) more than once.

I use VBSEO for three reasons only:

• The sitemap integrates nicely with vbet translator.
• The canonical url is displayed in the sitemap. The vbulletin url display isn't canonical and it can keep you from being indexed as the urls it submits have priority and can conflict with the canonical url if you have custom urls written.
• It supports memcached caching. I distribute my caching across multiple servers for efficiency.

Thanks for the tips friend about robots.txt I just added.

About anti-vBSEO army I understand now what you meant, and I wish this army does not interfere in our postanges.

You may also want to read this thread. Make sure your sitemap and canonical urls match. Check the source of your page to be sure. And if you are using VBSEO sitemap disable/delete your vbulletin native sitemap if you have vb4 or vb5 installed.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2546495

Thank you, deactivated native sitempa vBulletin and am also following the topic that you recommended.

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I am facing parsing error when i am submitting sitemap to google webmaster

please someone tell me what should i can do to resolve this issue?

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no response by onyone :(

Its just in two of ur sites maps... can you add more details or url of page giving error...

Click on the error link and tell us what it says? If it is a time out error or something like that you can change the settings to reduce the size of each file. You will just end up with more files.

1. Uninstall the vBSEO Sitemap generator. It is old, outdated, and a potential security risk. Mine stopped working on three forums after recent vBulletin 4 updates.

2. Enable the built-in vBulletin sitemap generator as follows:

• AdminCP >> Settings >> Options
• scroll down to XML Sitemap
• Enable Automatic Sitemap Generation = Yes
• Set the remaining settings according to your preferences
• For me, I set Sitemap File Path = . (just a period; you may need to experiemtn a bit with this depending on your server)

Thanks dear

In the data file
index file is blank
.htaccess has deny from all

So google and bing cannot access the xml.gz files
if you go www.sitename/vbseo_sitemap/data i get Forbidden and 404 error

Biing and google say they are forbidden had that in as the address to go to..
What am I doing wrong?
Downloaded twice more those two files still the same
Any help appreciated
Thank you

Not sure what you want to do, but this command blocks access to everyone. So, bots also can't access whatever place you blocked from outside.

Yes, I did change .htacess to .htacessbak to disable it
- then it gives a blank page

- do i change index file to indexbak to disable it so there is not a blank screen

Will it work then?
Why would they put these two files in there?

Thank you for your help

I did change the files to .bak to disable them

Google said : General HTTP error: HTTP 403 error (Forbidden)
HTTP Error: 403

There must be a last step not told about. It does create the maps. Says it sent it to google and yahoo (notification), but they can not get to it.

Anyone know last step?

Thank you

When the update comes out for vb 4.2.3?

This is "dead" mod, company behind it doesn't exist at all.

If you're interested in SEO, check this out: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=308615

thnx bro

has vbseo stopped to exist ? their website is giving a "Shared ip" page.

vBSEO stopped existing years ago. The product was allowed to expire and the developer skipped out on paying customers. The product now has known security flaws which are exploited sooner or later. If you have this product installed I recommend you uninstall it ASAP. DBSEO is an alternative although you really don't need an SEO program any longer with Google's latest technology.

:o:mad::eek::confused:

Thank you for your kind advice. I had no idea.

please help to fix it

Generated Sitemap Details
Date 2018-01-27 01:26
Processing time 23.45 s
Total URLs 21,411 (+6)
Forumdisplay URLs 422 (-)
Showthread URLs 3,755 (+2)
ShowPost URLs 4,978 (+2)
Archive URLs 3,987 (+2)
Member Profile URLs 8,210 (-)
Poll Results URLs 0 (-)
Blog Entries URLs 0 (-)
Blog Tag URLs 0 (-)
Album URLs 4 (-)
Social Group URLs 1 (-)
Tag URLs 53 (-)
CMS URLs 0 (-)
Sitemap Files
Index File sitemap_index.xml.gz
Sitemap File #1 sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz (9,156 URLs, 71.79Kb) 1,667.07Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #2 sitemap_archive_1.xml.gz (3,987 URLs, 26.78Kb) 725.43Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #3 sitemap_tags_1.xml.gz (53 URLs, 0.78Kb) 9.75Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #4 sitemap_member_1.xml.gz (8,210 URLs, 34.32Kb) 1,378.73Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #5 sitemap_album_1.xml.gz (4 URLs, 0.36Kb) 1.15Kb uncompressed
Sitemap File #6 sitemap_group_1.xml.gz (1 URLs, 0.32Kb) 0.57Kb uncompressed

Search Engines Pings
Google FAILED
Bing Successful
Yahoo FAILED
Ask FAILED
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why this failed please help me any one

Uninstall this product.

Use the built-in sitemap generator for vBulletin 4.x