I got 12 errors in the google sitemap webmaster tools:

Thanks :D

that really annoyed me, it looks way better now

T_Richardson,

in case if your forums URL is defined in admincp like http://example.com, you should submit sitemap like http://example.com/sitemap.xml (NOT http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml).

the sitemap tool is working for a year on my board..
but, Google like to index pages from my board that are really old, and i don't want google bots to access those pages, which means that i shouldn't send google in the sitemaps old URLs..
I have just one google bot on the site, it is the same bot that is downloading all the sitemaps, and it his crawling my board a lot, so I want it to crawl new threads , what do I need to change to Generate filtered sitemaps (which means that only threads from a certain date will be included in the site maps files) can you please help me?

vBSEO Sitemap Generator doesn't allow to exclude (cutoff) the threads based on the posts age.

Should I see an entry for every single day in my "Show Reports List" ? I only have 3 entries there and this has been installed for 6 days.

Here is my scheduled task log for the job

Hello,

try to execute sitemap generation manually in vbseo_sitemap/ interface to check if it finishes successfully.

It executes fine when run manually.

Newbie alert here lads.

I installed the mod a while ago, but when I go to googles webmaster tools I am getting an error when I try to add the sitemap.

I have tried forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz and /sitemap_index.xml.gz but it isn't accepting it?

When I check in the FTP there is no such file as 'sitemap_index.xml.gz' How do I generate it? I have run the sitemap generator I get;

Any help greatly appreciated.

I found three files in my /forum/vbseo_sitemap/data which look to be the sitemaps;

sitemap_index.xml.gz
sitemap_2.xml.gz
sitemap_1.xml.gz
sitemap.txt.gz

But I cannot add any of these into googles webmaster tools 'add sitemap'. Can anybody tell me were I am going wrong?

Boots,

do you have a new entry in reports list after manual generation?

Bacon Butty,
What is the error you get?

Thanks iojan for trying to help.

Basically when i put sitemap_index.xml.gz in the google sitemap i get;

When i put this in the google sitemap i get;

forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Any ideas?

Is there/will there be any functionality to automatically exclude threads and forums that aren't readable to unregistered users? I've manually excluded most of them, but there are still some remaining and more will accumulate over time. I don't want Google wasting its time looking for things that, once it's parsed the <meta> tags, it will discover it's not supposed to index anyway.

Bacon Butty,

what is sitemap URL you are submitting?

Simetrical,

all non-visible to guests threads should be excluded automatically. Make sure that you use the latest version of vBSEO Sitemap Generator.

I didn't look at whether the threads were being excluded, but I saw that the forums themselves were being provided. That would, I guess, just lead to Google/Yahoo! getting a permission error. For instance, it included forum 151 (the admin forum) from my site. I excluded that, and a bunch of others, but it still includes the ones I didn't specifically include even if they're passworded or otherwise hidden. For instance, the URL http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=252 is passworded but still available in the sitemaps at http://www.twcenter.net/urllist.txt.gz (and presumably the Google site maps too).

Is it closed for reading for "Unregistered" in usergroup permissions?

Sorry, it seems I was mistaken. Forums set to be unreadable to unregistered users don't show up, as intended. There's no problem there. Passworded forums do seem to show up, but that's probably good (actually there's a passworded forum I go to that I tend to find by Googling its name). No complaints from me, then, thanks a lot for the extension.

Great!

Warning: gzopen(/home/vhosts/vinodr/public_html/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data/urllist.txt.gz) [function.gzopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/vhosts/vinodr/public_html/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 544

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/vinodr/public_html/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 554

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/vinodr/public_html/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 565

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/vinodr/public_html/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 568

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/vinodr/public_html/www/forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 565

I'm getting this error when i run the site map generator please help

Hello,

make sure that you have set permissions for vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder to 0777.

Yes i have done that before but still the same error occurs i'm using VB3.6.8

Also set permissions for all files inside data/ folder to 0666.

Changed it but still the same error but i'm getting emails that its submitted to google and yahoo failed

Do you still get errors described in your post above?

Yes i have tried many ways but still same :confused: its there so i have disabled it as of now :o

The error means that permissions were not assigned correctly.

Could u please help me with the settings i have tried all that i can ....

hello
first thanks for gr8 work and share it for free
I would to know what link of site map to add it in yahoo?
now this is the url of sitemap for google
mysite/sitemap_index.xml.gz
okay I get it
but what is the url for yahoo?

also I add id for yahoo but when generate finish i get this on my maile
Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: FAILED.

how I fix that with yahoo

thanks for gr8 work

wow, this hack really made things easy. I've never been able to create a sitemap before this hack! It was too complicated but now I got it.

Can you believe that Google picked up 383 of my forum URLs over 2 weeks but after I sent that sitemap, it picked up 1152 URLs in TWO MINUTES! f-ing hell, Google used to be the slow one haha.

Thanks for the hack, really appreciated. Although I still have to figure out this Yahoo Appid thing and try getting that to work

Installed
Best Regards

Does anyone know how to authenticate the Yahoo Application ID? Does it just sit there for a Yahoo guy to approve or am I supposed to upload the Unauthenticated ID to my server or something before it gets approved?

Thanks

Just do as it says, paste the code into your page.

I'm sure this has already been asked but there are 20 pages to this thread.

Can this be used with out VBSEO?
I currently use the Zoints SEO and also is this fast?

Yes.

It works fine with Zoints SEO, at least without the mod-rewrite option, which isn't recommended in any case.

What page do I paste this into?

I put it in my footer template above and it works

The yahoo application ID that you applied for? You go back to vB options > vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator > scroll down to Yahoo Application ID, and paste the long ID into the box. That's all.

So is this an unauthentic application ID that I use or does it have to be authenticated first?

If it does, how do I get it authenticated?

Went from 500 urls to 9700. Great Hack:up:

It looks like the files are being saved in the /boards/vbseo_sitemap/data directory but Google is looking for them in the /boards directory. How do I change that?