okay i have installed this ...how do i check if it is wokring. i seen it says google bot downloaded it but if i look in google and see if my site has a sitemap ..it only shows add ? is there something else i was suppose to do ? sorry for such the newbie requests ....

CP,

sometimes Yahoo fails to receive the ping, I wouldn't worry about that and recommend to manually submit it to yahoo here: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

Divvy,

you can enter "vbseo_sitemap_task" as varname.


mmoore5553,

you should manually submit sitemap_index.xml.gz in Google Webmaster Account to check that's parsed correctly.

prob solved thanx

veenuisthebest

There's no problem in your sitemap. Infact, this is how sitemap looks.


This just means that you need to give write permissions to data folder, which you had already given I suppose, that is why your sitemap is created successfully.

thanx bro
but no such file /forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz is created
can u tell me how togive write permission to data folder..........

check it once mere bhai! It is created:

http://devilsfunhouse.org/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz

thank u bhai it wasnt at the time of posting :o

I'm trying to figure out how to make vbseo put the sitemap on the domain root rather than in the forumsroot/vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder but can't quite seem to figure it out.

My guess is that it has something to do with the rewrite url in the .htaccess file but I don't know what to change it toto make it work correctly.

Currently I have an htaccess file in my domain root, forums root and the forumsroot/vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder but they all say the same thing. I'm guessing one of them needs to be changed or removed.

This is what they all 3 say:
I see in the admin panel there's a setting for Sitemap Files URL, but putting my domain url in there doesn't change anything once I re-run it. As a matter of fact, the cron runs, says done, and it now hasn't updated the file anywhere apparently. Well, I don't see a sitemap file on the root anyway. however, if I type this url in my browser: http://www.mydomain.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz, a current sitemap pulls up. I'm confused.

Can someone give me some help?

Thanks!

OK, I think I have this figured out and it does indeed appear to be working although a "sitempa" file isn't being generated on the root.

Yes, it DOES work, that way only.

The .htaccess in forums root is taking care of sitemap url being called from forum root despite it actually resides in data folder.