i would love to use vbseo but i just can't justify the price of it. my site has no ads save some adsense on the archives that never gets looked at so everything on it, so everything on it is paid for either out of my pocket or with donations. i can't afford to spend that amount of money. i'll see what happens if i turn the rewrites off though.

I'm not sure if this has already been stated but I didn't see it in the 20 some-odd pages I read nor in a search of this thread so... To get the product working with IIS, simply download the "lite" version of ISAPI_Rewrite and then use the following rewrite command:

Note the leading '/' after the start of the regular expression (^); the rewrite rule wasn't working for me without it. I added two rewrite rules; one for root of my website and one for the root of my forums. I wasn't entirely sure which was appropriate so I figured I'd put both in just in case. In essence, the sitemap will now be found whether it is accessed at the webroot or my forum root...

Looking at the output of the actual sitemap_index.xml file I think the /forums rewrite is definitely required. I'm not sure if there is a reason to have the webroot rewrite in there or not; I'm guessing not... If someone in the know would like to chime in with a response that would be great.

In the meantime, everyone should know that there is a free utility (ISAPI_Rewrite the "lite" version) which enabled you to configure this plug-in completely using IIS and Windows.

I didn't say to turn them off. Yes that is one option. My first thought was to make sure that you had hacked the vbseo sitemap program to display the rewritten url's on the sitemap.

I dont know what rewrite program you have, but it may be that even though there are some deficiencies in it, it may be better than the base vBulletin package which has lots of duplicate url's of its own.

Changing url's is not something to be taken lightly. People start quoting the url's in your forum and so changing url's means those quoted url's go no where.

odd mine says saved to my forum root but nothing is there.

T3MEDIA,

sitemap files are physically stored in /vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder.
And sitemap links point to forums root using mod_rewrite entry added in .htaccess.

Anyone notice this wording @ yahoo?

A text file containing a list of URLs, each URL at the start of a new line. The filename of the URL list file must be urllist.txt; for a compressed file the name must be urllist.txt.gz.

I've had yahoo grab the data before when it says sitemap.txt.gz, but perhaps it may be prudent to change the name to urllist.txt.gz per the above?

Will be updated in v.1.7 (to be released shortly) :) - Thanks

why do i have a sitemap.txt.gz in the data folder instead of sitemap.txt? or can yahoo read the gz file?

Yahoo can read the sitemap.txt.gz file. It's a compressed text file.

ChuanSE,

yes, Yahoo can read sitemap files compressed with gzip.