i dont see any place in the insstructions that mentions the add on as you mention and the .htaccess files i in the root directorie of the forum

Ok its working my .htaccess was not correct thanks for your help..going to your website right now as were speaking to see whats the difference on the free version and paid version

It's not my website. I'm not associated weith vBSEO and there is no "paid version" of the vBSEO sitemap. It is a free offering.

vBSEO itself is a vBulletin SEO package and it's not free.

I am trying to verify that I have this installed correctly. I tried testing my mod_rewrite as described at bvseo.com (Forum Link) but it didnt work right. I will follow up on that issue on their website.

Here is a screen shot of my report details (the site isn't open yet, not many posts)

Note: ALL of the search engine pings failed. Does that mean it is not installed correctly?

When I click on Sitemap Files>Index File... There is a reference to this URL but it is not valid on my server.. Is this correct/incorrect? (http://www.usamusicians.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz)

Also when I click on urllist.txt I get this message..."Sitemap file not found:"
Looks like a problem to me but who knows...:erm:

There is no urllist.txt - that is an oudated, now-defunct format previously used by Yahoo. The link you posted to your sitemap worked just fine for me.

Please read what I posted above. I think you are confusing vBSEO, a commercial vBulletin SEO package, with vBSEO_sitemap. You have installed the free vbseo_sitemap only. You have NOT installed the vBSEO package. They are separate products and there is a huge difference.

I am not confused. I purchased and installed VBSEO a few days ago and it was suggested to me by their staff to install the sitemap also.... so I did. I just want to make sure everything is working optimally because I haven't used VBSEO or a sitemap before. If it is not installed correctly or is just not working correctly then what's the sense... I'm sure you can understand where I am coming from...

So the fact that the search engine pings failed is not an issue?

and.. If urllist.txt is an oudated, now-defunct format previously used by Yahoo then why is it included in this updated version of the sitemap app? (This is just a nag/rhetorical question)

My apologies. But if you have a l;egal vBSEO license, your best bet is to submit a support ticket and/or post in the sitemap forum there. You'll likely get a much faster response. Chances are one of the support people will get your authorization for FTP access and sort it out for you.

As for urllist.txt, I don't know - you'll have to ask the developers that question.

I don't know what's going on with the pings. Do you have a Google Webmaster Central accounbt? If not, get one. Add your forum as a site and add a sitemap to that listing in Webmaster Central. If Google is having a problem retrieving your sitemap, they should indicate that via error messages.

thanks post :)

Has anyone written an add-on module for vbSEO that will index the "Links and Downloads" vb module? I see one exists for Downloads II... but I'm using LDM...

Mike

im getting a 404 page error when google is trying to find the robot.txt file. this program dossent have this so how do i make or get a robot.txt file

any thoughts on how to make this??