I found three files in my /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data which look to be the sitemaps;

sitemap_index.xml.gz
sitemap_2.xml.gz
sitemap_1.xml.gz
sitemap.txt.gz

But I cannot add any of these into googles webmaster tools 'add sitemap'. Can anybody tell me were I am going wrong?

Boots,

do you have a new entry in reports list after manual generation?

Bacon Butty,
What is the error you get?

Thanks iojan for trying to help.

Basically when i put sitemap_index.xml.gz in the google sitemap i get;

When i put this in the google sitemap i get;

forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Any ideas?

Is there/will there be any functionality to automatically exclude threads and forums that aren't readable to unregistered users? I've manually excluded most of them, but there are still some remaining and more will accumulate over time. I don't want Google wasting its time looking for things that, once it's parsed the <meta> tags, it will discover it's not supposed to index anyway.

Bacon Butty,

what is sitemap URL you are submitting?

Simetrical,

all non-visible to guests threads should be excluded automatically. Make sure that you use the latest version of vBSEO Sitemap Generator.

I didn't look at whether the threads were being excluded, but I saw that the forums themselves were being provided. That would, I guess, just lead to Google/Yahoo! getting a permission error. For instance, it included forum 151 (the admin forum) from my site. I excluded that, and a bunch of others, but it still includes the ones I didn't specifically include even if they're passworded or otherwise hidden. For instance, the URL http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=252 is passworded but still available in the sitemaps at http://www.twcenter.net/urllist.txt.gz (and presumably the Google site maps too).

Is it closed for reading for "Unregistered" in usergroup permissions?

Sorry, it seems I was mistaken. Forums set to be unreadable to unregistered users don't show up, as intended. There's no problem there. Passworded forums do seem to show up, but that's probably good (actually there's a passworded forum I go to that I tend to find by Googling its name). No complaints from me, then, thanks a lot for the extension.

Great!

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Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/vinodr/public_html/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 565

I'm getting this error when i run the site map generator please help