Originally Posted by New-Age View Post

The below was sent to me however when I click the link http://www.new-age.net.au/forums/ind...vbseo_sitemap/

It directs me to my forum page less some images -
Is this normal?

No. What do you mean it was sent to you? By what or whom?

By email from below:

vBSEO(TM) c 2005-2009 Crawlability, Inc.
http://www.crawlability.com/vbseo
http://www.vbseo.com


Originally Posted by New-Age View Post

The vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap has been successfully generated for your vBulletin forums at:
New Age Forums (http://www.new-age.net.au/forums/index.php)

This is the link you use and report to Google, etc.

However, the actual location will be redirected by an .htaccess file mod_rewrite. Did you add the required lines to your .htaccess file?

I could not find the .htaccess file in my files of vBulletin Forum so I uploaded the htaccess file
from the htaccess folder in vbseo_sitemap- 2-5


:confused:

Black Tiger,

yes, you should apply the same fix.

Chris!,

you can try to create robots.txt file in domain root with:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /external.php

Thanks Chris.
But it would be very nice if the files too would be upgraded so with the next upgrade everything will go ok.;)

I don't get it.

Actually, I installed it so my forums urls would change into .html instead of .php
but I don't see niether this nor vbseo brand on the footer of my forum

is my situation as it should be?? or I should install some other plugins??

This isn't vBSEO - that is a paid product you can find at http://www.vbseo.com

This is a free and independent add-on by the people who created vBSEO. All it does it generate sitemaps for search engines. It doesn't rewrite URLS or do anything else except the sitemap.

I see

thank u buddy :)

I am wondering what the recommended "exclude" list is for this sitemap? How does it handle/manage duplicate content?

For those without Apache, ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Lite's httpd.conf can block direct access to the data directory this way:

The thing works fine on my test forum but I'm getting an error when running it on my live server:

I'll try increasing the PHP Memory Limit in php.ini.


EDIT: Yeah, it worked fine when increasing the memory to 48mb.

I'm pretty sure it's being caused by urllist.txt.gz, which is precisely that size. No way to make it create it in parts and then, when it's done, merge the parts together? That way it would work for those who do not have access to php.ini. This way I'll need to keep increasing my memory as my board gets bigger.

Bug:
Should be: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit?


Feedback:
MSN is not listed as bot in Sitemap Downloads Log: msnbot-webmaster/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

i have installed this Mod , But When I want to submit sittemaps , i Got 403 Forbiden error .
I Have Copyed Sotemaps to Forums Root Folder , But Then I Got 404 Can not Find error .
When I Type Sitemapp Url In Broeser It Will Open , But Gogle return 404 . Why this Happen ?!
data folder is 777

You shouldn't copy or move the data to the forum root. That's what the htaccess is for:

If you have IIS instead of Apache, then use ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Lite but since you're getting forbidden errors it looks like the htaccess files are working for you. Once you submit, then use this link: http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz - and not http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz - because that will give a forbidden error. The first link will redirect the search engine to the second link (because of the htaccess file) and it will not give a forbidden error.