Don't confuse this product with vBSEO. This is vBSEO Sitemap (a separate and free mod) it has officially been unsupported for a long time.

About the only place you are going to get support on it now is right here from fellow vB users. If you have a question or issue just ask. There are more people familiar with the product here than almost anywhere else.

I've only just noticed that this mod doesn't work for me. According to the logs, there is no bot activity on my site (even know I see them on "Who's Online"); how do I fix this?

Are you supposed to manually submit vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz etc to Webmasters?

Also, which ones should you submit?

Yes, you need to submit the index file ONLY to search engines (namely Google & Bing). Submitting the other files won't hurt but there will also be no benefit. The other files are linked through the index file and will be automatically scanned as long as the index file is submitted to the search engines.


Submittion url should look like:

Once submitted the first time, search engines will know where it is and continually look for it and search for changes/updates. You can also set up VBSEO Sitemap to automatically notify search engines each time it is updated (it is a setting). This may get your site updates indexed a few hours quicker depending on how often your site is already being scanned by the search engines. The auto-notify currently only works for Google & Bing. They are the two largest search engines anyway and where probably 90+% of your search engine traffic is coming from, so it is a handy feature.

I'm getting errors with this.

sitemap_index.xml.gz is located in /vbseo_sitemap/data/..., but when I link to it the search engines can't find the additional xml's because they're reportedly supposed to be in the root folder.

How do I fix this aside from manually adding each one? Thanks for your help by the way. :)

You are correct the actual file locations for all sitemaps are in /vbseo_sitemap/data/ but that is not where you link to them. You link to the index file in the forum root.


The index sitemap file does not reside there but it and all other sitemap files are accessed there. For this to work correctly, this line should be in your forum root .htaccess .

Where is the information to run on 4.21? I uninstalled the plugin as it ceased to work and I understand that should run if I make some changes.

Hello,

That rewrite rule was already present in HT access, but Google is still throwing up errors when I try to submit "sitemap_index.xml.gz" as a sitemap.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Message me your site address and I'll see if I can't track down the issue.

I have had this installed for a few months now and it's working great. The only thing
I don't receive is the SE Bots Activity Log, it's just blank.. Any ideas?

(I have the robots.txt added along with the meta tag for it)

I get plenty of spider bots on the site, just nothing in the log. Any suggestions or help
will be greatly appreciated

There is something strange in here showed up after my web hosting "Bluehost" had been down for almost 1 day. I get this error:
as if my web hosting doesn't support Zend optimizer, but I could see the feature is ON.

I use PHP 5.4 (FastCGI) and I'm wondering if everyone is the same or different on this!!

any idea ??

Update: I had to copy some zend opimizer url path from php5.2 fast-cgi to php5.4 fast-cgi and it works perfect!!