A tip:-

I noticed we can easily link it with Google webmasters account so that we do not need to submit it their manually everytime.

1. First make sure you're .htaccess is working fine and sitemaps are generated.

2. Simply sign to Google Webmasters -> Dashboard -> Sitemaps -> Add General Web Sitemap -> and give your sitemap URL as http://www.yoursite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz and Add it.

This way your sitemap would automatically be updated.

3. You can do the same thing with Yahoo Site Explorer.

Go to Yahoo Site Explorer -> My Sites -> Manage -> and Add Website Feed as http://www.yoursite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Yahoo doesn't update/download sitemap automatically, so all you need to do is to Select your feed and click "Resubmit".

veenuisthebest,

try to replace "if(!vbseo_dbtbl_exists('album') || !function_exists('vbseo_album_url_row'))" with "if(!vbseo_dbtbl_exists('album'))" in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file.

Okay - I didn't think two were required, but wasn't sure if it had to be right next to the next line. I told you I'm a newbie. :p

I have the .htaccess file in my forums root, yes.

Regarding "they won't be copied to your forums directory" - then what is the rewrite actually doing? And what path should I be telling google my sitemaps reside in? I have it set right now to http://www.clutchfitness.com/forums/...p_index.xml.gz, and then after I manually run the sitemap generator, and it returns the link to the sitemap, I click on it and get this error:

If the .htaccess file is located IN the mysite.com/forums directory does that mean I do NOT need the .htaccess file to have "forums" in it, like this:

Or should it still have forums in it, like this?
Sorry I'm so confused, but I know I can get this to work. :)

yes you do not need "forums" in it. As you can see your sitemap URL http://www.clutchfitness.com/forums/...p_index.xml.gz works fine.

But the one you're requesting is /forums/forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php (note the "forums" twice)

Remove forums from .htaccess and you're done.

Ahhhh...thank you. I think I have it working now. :)

"if(!vbseo_dbtbl_exists('album') || !function_exists('vbseo_album_url_row'))" doesn't exist in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php

all what I had added in the file was this

if(!function_exists('vbseo_group_url_row')){functi on vbseo_group_url_row(){}}
if(!function_exists('vbseo_tags_url')){function vbseo_tags_url(){}}
if(!function_exists('vbseo_album_url_row')){functi on vbseo_album_url_row(){}}

Can you PM me your admincp access to check this?

Im a using the vbseo 3.1.0 version .. with vb 3.7.3

and i dont want to upgrade vbseo right now to 3.2.0 ..

my question is ...

can i install this version of generator on 3.1.0 ? and what could happen if i cant do so ?

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Been using with no issue for a couple of weeks - Now I am getting this error in Google Webmaster tools: