Thanks.

Do you know what the max size per file is for Google? Mine are all around 4MB, but are being rejected by Google.

Looking at the report, it shows the google index url pointing to http://www.example.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz but if I look in the same directory using FTP, it's not there. Do I need to change a setting somewhere?

hscorp,

are your subforums open for guest visitors? (otherwise search engines will not be able to view them, and they are automatically excluded from sitemap)

lowlight,

maximum file size if 10Mb. What exactly is the error message you get?

cooltechie,

files are stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, but you can access them via forums root using rewrite rule entered in .htaccess file.

I'm using mod that allow search engine to access the forum and prevent the guests

so how can i make the sitemap include the links?

regards

Hi;
When I Run Sitemap I gives me Error;

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT *
FROM vbthread AS thread
WHERE forumid = 3
AND visible = 1
AND pollid > 0;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Thursday, January 29th 2009 @ 12:09:58 AM
Error Date : Thursday, January 29th 2009 @ 12:23:50 AM
Script : http://www..com/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap.php
Referrer : http://www..com/vbseo_sitemap/
IP Address : 88.231.140.146
Username : Kayıtsız
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Please Help.
Thanks...

Are these part of the instructions? I'm sure I followed everything but can't figure out why it would point there when in fact the files are stored elsewhere. The bots didn't make one download which was why I looked there. Kindly point me in the right direction.

In the AdminCP settings for this mod, one of the options is "Max URLs in Sitemap Files." In the description it says "Google allows no more than 50,000 URLs per file." What happens if my site starts getting over 50,000 URL's?? If I leave the default setting at 20,000 what will happen when I get to 20,000? Does it just start making a new sitemap file, or do I lose old links in the sitemap?

I hope that question makes sense...

Thanks!

hscorp,

that is cloaking, that's why those URLs are not included in sitemap.


O'NEAL,

you should increase wait_timeout setting in MySQL configuration.


cooltechie,
> Are these part of the instructions?
yes:
joe1989,

it will just split sitemap on multiple files in this case.

So all the links will still be found by the crawler bots?

I triple checked and verified that the line is there. Since I had an existing .htaccess, I simply cut and pasted the line you have in the htaccess.txt file. I can access the report details but not the linked gz file.

edit: I renamed my htaccess and uploaded the one you have and it works. My guess is the bad bots list is conflicting with yours.