ho guys, i am using vbSEO sitemap generation ... this plug-in for 3.5x.

Actually my question is: Which product is better?
Or should we possibly merge them by using the sitemap of vbseo and the redirection of this one here.

thanks for replies!

Is there any way to run this without having to chmod my root dir to the the most insecure values on earth?

If you create the initial file with the proper permissions, then you shouldn't have to chmod the whole directory as it just overwrites the file I believe...

How to I install the plugin? what hook does it go under and what title does it have? thanks :)

EDIT-Know how to install plugin,just don't know what hook name or what I should call it.

I need to learn to read the install files ;)

OK so submitted it,it said it couldn't make a site map from a certain file then it attempted to submit it from elsewhere and it went through OK I assume as it said that it had been submitted for crawling.

Installed the plug in.Since then my bots on my site have been stuck viewing one thread for an hour.I guess I will see what they do tomorrow :) if I made an error could it make the bots get stuck?

Looks nice!

Is there any possibility I will lose, or decrease my hits on google?

Help, my plug-in is not sending the sitemap to Google! I've installed everything correctly, added the plug-in and set a scheduled task for it. In my /forum/archive folder, there are several .gz files so I know sitemaps are being generated by the hack. But the problem is, these are not being sent to Google.

In AdminCP > Scheduled Task Manager, I get a "Done" message everytime I click "Run Now" to test the plugin. But if I check Scheduled Task Log, there's no log entry for this plugin, not even one!

Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

Probably this could help. While installing this hack, I chmodded to 777 the /forum and /archive folders as per the instructions. However when I tried to call the forums_sitemap.php file, I always get an Error 500 (Internal Server Error). Also, the forum itself is down and inaccessible while the folders are chmodded 777. I checked my error log and it confirms that the error existed because the "directory is writable by others."

The point is, when I call the forums_sitemap.php file, I get a Server Error so I basically can't make it to run even for the first time. Because the forum is down because the "directory is writable by others," I have to chmod the folders back to 755.

Anyone who knows how to make the hack send the sitemaps to Google?

PS. I'm using ver. 3.5.3

any reply to my question above anyone?

anyway, i have another question. what i just did was manually submit to Google the sitemaps generated by this hack. as i said before, in /forum/archive folder, i have a lot of gz files which i assume are sitemaps.

my question is, how are the different gz files different from one another? i have more than 50 sitemap files from number 13 until number 98 but i am missing other files. what i mean is i have sitemap_13.gz file and sitemap_98.gz but i don't have sitemap_21.gz , sitemap_22.gz and sitemap_23.gz files to name a few.

i only submitted sitemap_98.gz and i'm wondering if the other (or all?) sitemap files need to be submitted to Google?

I have The Same Qustion.....as we are not xpert hand..
we are usingng "vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator for vBulletin 3.5.x & vBulletin 3.0.x " located in Here

what is the difference in between this two ? if u xplain,it will help us to decide our mind.....
other hand we looks for ur suggetion about url re-writer(not vbseo origin one-that costs 150$)

does this sitemap provide rss feed portion too? (maybe i cant ask the qustion properly).i mean using this sitemap does google discover sites rss ?
btw in robots.txt why we need to disallow external.php ?


Plz let us know the details...

Thnx in advance.

no one is supporting this ?