question in the data folder is a htaccess with deny from all how can google pull info if its denied?

DementedMindz,

the data/ folder is not accessed directly - you should submit http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_1.xml.gz URL (not http://yourforumsroot/vbseo_sitemap/...temap_1.xml.gz)

thank you i just wasnt sure if the htaccess in root allows them to grab the sitemap

one Problem with the Time an Date in the Highscore

absoluter Highscore: darkdiver schaffte 160 Punkte am d.m.Y

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Hello,

I installed this plugin but in my Google acc, it show error "Unsupported file format".

How can I sold it out?

Thank you very much

darkdiver,
Perhaps this is about another hack, not vBSEO Sitemap Generator? :)

nguyenvuan,
please let me know the URL you are submitting to Google.

Mega ditto. My pages indexed are steadily falling. If this trend continues, I'm going to have to uninstall. Also, the pages that Google has aren't the ones in the sitemap. What gives?

Have you recently upgraded to vbulletin 3.5. There are many rel=nofollows on the new version that means that many duplicate url's are no longer available to the search engines. This would reduce the urls reported on Google/Yahoo. But this is nothing to worry about.

You have to understand what a sitemap is. Its just a list of url's of your existing forum. It lets Google/Yahoo know the url's that you have, and the new ones that have been added.

How many pages are reported on google compared to the url's in the sitemap? If you have an old site, and less url's in Google than the sitemap, then you possibly need more inbound links/Google Pr, and better onpage SEO.

A site map does not SEO your pages, does not make each page any more unique than any other regards duplicate content... A sitemap can do no harm, and Google still spiders your site normally.

Do you have the vbSEO rewrite installed?
Do you have any other url rewrite hack installed?

Since rewrite hacks will have a big effect on the url's this would give some answers. You would need to make sure that the sitemap was doing the rewritten urls properly (certainly would work with vbseo url rewriter).

Apart from the above, just put it down to the ups and downs of how Google and Yahoo report pages.

I recommend that you look at the onpage SEO template changes I recommend on my thread Search Engine Optimize vBulletin 3.5. With vBSEO, and my onpage changes, sites generally get to the top of the SERPS for many forums and threads.

All the best.

We upgraded near the end of December and we have a non vbSEO url rewrite solution. i will implement your ideas on SEO for vb 3.5 and let you know how it goes.

thanks!

With a non vbseo rewrite, you will need to make sure that the sitemap shows the rewrites. Be very careful using the vbseo sitemap as this will only list the old default vBulletin url's (unless you have customised the vbseo sitemap program)

All the rewrites that I have seen have very big problems. You should not be able to see the old url's at all on your forum. If you can see old url's and these are not 301 redirected to the new, then you have duplicate content, and you are losing out on Google PR and link text value to those pages.

vbseo is the only rewrite that I have seen that does a 100% job (apart from several sites that I have manually coded). In fact, with the new vbseo just out, there are just so many extras over and above plain rewrites, that it is well worth having a look.