bruss,

most likely you had a temporary problems with your site at the time when google bot has attempted to retrieve these pages.

Timan,

there are no known issues related to a new version of vB with vBSEO Sitemap Generator

trigon,

this should be in /public_html/forum/.htaccess

ok, delete this:
and my htaccess is in /public_html, but no go. :disappointed:

With this mod installed, shouldn't the number of indexed pages INCREASE in google search? Ours dropped from 39,000+ to 600s since the mod was installed.... I am looking at this very closely and if it does not improve, the mod will have to come down.

trigon,
.htaccess should be in forums root (/public_html/forum/)


DefenceTalk,
you can find the detailed info on Google Sitemaps here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...cs/en/faq.html

The sitemap system is working fine with vbSEO 2.4.0 but on the SE Bots Activity Log Page the SHOW POST column is always empty.

Whats wrong there?

Iojam,

I know about that page but it doesn't answer the question which i asked. We've installed this on three boards and the number of pages INDEXED have dropped from thousands to hundreds.

Results 1 - 10 of about 701 from domain.com/forums/ for

which use to be:
Results 1 - 10 of about 39,000+ from domain.com/forums/ for

This has happened across the board on all three websites.

Hi,

I have installed this hack. After the task has been run, I get a report with this info in it.
Database error in vBulletin 3.5.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM adv_setting;

MySQL Error : Table 'soc-forum.adv_setting' doesn't exist Error Number : 1146
Date : Saturday, February 25th 2006 @ 03:33:18 AM
Script : http://www.skyline-owners-club.com/f...hp?&rand=76530
Referrer : http://www.skyline-owners-club.com/forums/index.php
IP Address : 88.104.216.87
Username :
Classname :

Also, when looking in the /index.php file and login in. there is no info under any of the headings. (Its run twice now)

Any help would be good.

Thanks

It gives me concern to install this if less pages are being indexed. What's up with that !?

jluerken,

is this column empty for a long time already? Are other page types non-empty?

DefenceTalk,

sitemap protocol has no commands to remove pages from the index, so it can't force the number of indexed pages to drop.
There are, however, other factors (not related to sitemap) that may cause this (these changes may be related to a google update).
You can also add your sitemap files URLs to the google webmaster account to check if there is a parse error.

R34GTT,
make sure that yo have no vbseo_sm_vba.php in the vB AdminCP->vBSEO Sitemap generator Options->Addons List if you don't have vBadvanced installed.

Thanks, I will try that.