Works like a charm, thanks. Clicks install.

works great!

anyone knows how i can change the background/font color in the map area?
the font color on my forum is a kind of yellow/white (#ffffcc), hard to read any text on a white background :/

I did the required steps; uploaded & configured files, added a schelduled task & ran..

Then I run http://www.mudomain.com//vbgsitemap/index.php ; input the db username & password and clicked to "Create vBulletin Google Sitemap" >> redirected to "http://vbgsitemap/index.php" But "the page cannot be open" ... ?

did you do all the chmods?

Yes surely.. :ermm:

Check your configurations file. Looks like you have some path issues that need to be sorted?

Can you look at any of the threads that are on your forum? I tried on a few, and got the signup page. These threads wont appear on the sitemap, since the public can't view them.

Check out the newest release from Crawlability/vBSEO - their version of a Google/Yahoo Site Map generator. It is great for vbseo and non vbseo, and pre and post vbulletin 3.5.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100435

Once they have the bugs fixed, I would recommend that you use theirs instead of mine :disappointed:. I have been a small part of the development of their product, enough for them to include me on the credits of it.

Its got a few more bells and whistles than my product.

The vbgsitemap-config.php is true..

$base="351/"; (the forum files are in public_html/351/ path; and the vbgsitemap folder is in public_html; and the vbgsitemap.php is in the /public_html/ folder)

I turned on the threads contents for unregistered users too to be able to view.. But still have the same problem.. :ermm:

The mod you mention tries to achieve SEO as well as doing the sitemap. Personally, I don't like the methods that are used in that mod. Personally I prefer the vBSEO product for the SEO side of things. I like being able to keep to the spirit of what vBulletin is all about, and let the search engines see what the user would see, and not try to cloak pages. The users see the actual threads, so lets SEO the actual threads rather than use the archive version.

vBulletin 3.5 has even added the option to have the sitemap/archive go through to the actual threads (at my insistence) rather than the previous additional version of them.

Does anyone know... when I add URL's to file.txt, do I add all of the parameters per .php page, or do I just include the .php page? for example:

http://www.mysite.com/home.php?id=3

Do I just include

http://www.mysite.com/home.php

OR every page with every parameter, like "id=3", "id=4", etc.

Thanks in advance for any help :)

What are the url's of your pages??? What has Google cached? What do you want Google to cache? What do you want shown on the serps. If the url includes strings as part of the url, then that is the url of that page.

In vBulletin standard, all the threads are url strings, and that is what you want cached by Google, therefore in the sitemap. Same for any other page.

well, that makes sense. thanks!

when i run the creator it pings with no errors, however all the links it creates are missing the forums directory.

/vbgsitemap/files/

but it should be

/forums/vbgsitemap/files/

How do I uninstall this hack?

you delete the files you uploaded when you installed it

would this work with DeanC's SEO vb URL Rewrite hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91324 ?

no it wont :)
it will use VBSEO though

check the config file and make sure that you have your forum directory in there:
$base="forums/"; // "" if in root, $base="forum/"; //if in the subdirectory forum

The vbgsitemap is off the root directory so that not only can you add vbulletin url's, but your other url's. The vbgsitemap.php needs to be in the root, so that Google can add url's off your root as well. vbgsitemap.php accesses the actual files in the /vbgsitemap/files/ directory

What exactly does this hack do? Help!

Google has got a site map system whereby you tell it the url's of your website, and it is then able to find them easier. You can diret it to look at the url's less often than they would normally (ie if content doesnt change too often) and so save bandwidth, or for google to check more frequently if content is often changing.

It is especially good if you have lots of new threads being created. The sitemap will show the create date of those threads and google should find them faster than otherwise.

script will generate a url list (in a text file) of a vb forum, that you can feed to the google sitemap creator.

It currently list all forums and all treads urls + the base url of the site and base url of the forum.

I'm sorry but I do not understand
My forums are in a directory called modules

modules/forums/vbgsitemap/index.php


Can someone point me in the right direction? I am finding this confusing...

Thanks

Is there anyone that understands this issue that can help me???

Thanks

The vbgsitemap program is designed to work from the root directory - this enables you to add your vBulletin and all the other url's from your site.

So your install directory would be
/vbgsitemap/index.php


Your base variable should be correct:
$base="modules/forums/";

I would realy appreciate some help here..

I am also having the same problem as many other with
Incorrect username/password

whenever I enter my Vb's configs username and pass..

Im on VB 3.5.3

Iv seen a few comments about editing multi.php but i dont even have that file..

Please help

The username/password is the same as that on the DATABASE, not your normal username/password for vbulletin access.

I understand that dude..

I have been using the username and password from my

Vbforums/includes/config.php

Details

Forums DB username and pass..

and it dosent work

Thanks for being able to work with you and get it working. I look forward to seeing your post on the exact reason for your issues.

YUp massive thanks Td2 U was a star last night ...

( Made me feel like a complete noob too lol )

The reason I was getting was wrong username and password was because I had eddited past the line in the config that said>>


//end of configuration

//************************************************** ************

And changed this code


if ($config['MasterServer']['username']){

$dbusername=$config['MasterServer']['username'];

$dbpassword=$config['MasterServer']['password'];

$servername=$config['MasterServer']['servername'];

$dbname=$config['Database']['dbname'];

$tableprefix=$config['Database']['tableprefix'];

}Changing the latter code to my actual settings...

Thanks again to u dude and maybe if somone else as sumb as me does the same this post may save them some heart ache!

hello T2Dman...

as u know we generaluser arent xpert enugh to decide our mind some times...specially when sitation is a bit complicated...
as u also know in vb.org there app. 6-8 google sitemap r available now...

Google/Yahoo Sitemap generator .
Google Sitemap Archive
and This One

what is the actual difference in between of them?

expecting an description......least it will help vb users to decide there mind -what is good for Google sitemap....

as i read google faq...but everything isnt clear to me...other hand google is clear to u...
Please lets us know what to do..around the gogole sitemap....

hello T2Dman...

as u know we generaluser arent xpert enugh to decide our mind some times...specially when sitation is a bit complicated...
as u also know in vb.org there app. 6-8 google sitemap r available now...

Google/Yahoo Sitemap generator .
Google Sitemap Archive
and This One

what is the actual difference in between of them?

expecting an description......least it will help vb users to decide there mind -which 1 is good for Google sitemap....

as i read google faq...but everything isnt clear to me...other hand google is clear to u...
Please lets us know what to do..around the gogole sitemap....

Thnkx

Works great thankyou sir

i dont have VBSEO but i have installed other URL REWRITE, i'ave downloaded and installed this hack, what should i do now ??

I hope that you have the url rewrite working great for you. So far, I have found the vbseo is the only one to do things 110% properly.

My sitemap program will need to be hacked to include the new url's - using the format of your rewritten url's - you should be able to see the formula in its code.

I know what this one does, and I know that it works well. As to others, I have not investigated apart from the vbseo sitemap which is yet to release a newer version which includes some essential additions I have helped them with (when used in conjunction with the main vbseo rewrite).

vbgsitemap creates a list of url's in gzipped xml form that can act as a starter for Google to base its spidering on. It also creates a list of url's for yahoo.

If this is what the others do, then take your pick.

I had your version installed on one of my sites, should i use the same or switch to vbseo sitemap ?

I am talking from search engine perspective..

thanks.

I am sorry but i did not found anything, which hides non-required forums (private forums) . ?

There is a long awaited update of the vbseo sitemap (v1.7) that has not yet been released. The update includes all old url's into the sitemap as well as the vbseo rewritten url's.

However, if Google has seen all your old url's and cleaned them out of its index using my vbgsitemap, I would recommend the vbseo version. It has a few nice bits like the download stats that mine does not have.

I am getting this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '>' in /home/fourthir/public_html/vbgsitemap/index.php on line 41

Is their somewhere that I put in the DB name?
because it seems like its missing that.

Thanks for this, works great with my Vbulletin.

Could this also work with other sites (non-forum)?