slight problem with mine here

its working fine but it creates the sitemap 5 times in about 5 mins!!!

i get 5 emails in short succession saying its been updated

this would be classed as bad on googles behalf wouldnt it cos it keeps repeating itself?

any ideas?

I'm getting the email that the sitemap was generated and sent to Google. I have it generated in /vbseo_sitemap/data/ but when I log into my webmaster account and try to submit it manually, I get an error from Google saying:

"We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit."

Any thoughts?

xtreme-mobile,

please check your scheduled task settings - make sure that you DON'T have '*' for the minutes pulldown, because it means running it every minute.


agiacosa,

you should submit http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz file , which is accessed using mod_rewrite rule (do not submit vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz).

A few things...

- The install instructions have the mod_rewrite going to sitemap.(txt|xml).(gz) but I could only get it to work by going to sitemap_index.(txt|xml).(gz), and iojam's thread above this one says to point to sitemap_index as well. Am I supposed to be seeing a "sitemap.xml.gz" file somewhere or are the instructions supposed to be saying "sitemap_index. ...."?

- In vbseo_sm_vba.php I had to change the value of $vba_url to be blank to get the vBa page links working correctly. If I left it at the default, and uncommented out the next line per the instructions, I was ending up with links like "http://www.coolscifi.com/forumshttp://www.coolscifi.com/index.php?page={pagename}". My guess is that it's because the script is assuming that vBadvanced CMPS URL is set to just "/index.php" but the user is actually instructed to place the full URL in that value but either the truncated version or the full URL works fine for most people.

- Also in vbseo_sm_vba.php, any chance of having the permissions of the page looked at instead of just the inactive flag? I have several pages on some of my sites that are active but are turned off to guests (for example, games & downloads that are only available to registered members) but right now the default script would pick up those pages anyway and submit them to Google/Yahoo only to get hit with a CMPS 'no permissions' error.

Thanks. :)

Hello,

Rewrite rule to use is:
^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$
and it matches sitemap_index.xml.gz, sitemap_1.xml.gz, sitemap_2.xml.gz etc. The files are stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, but are linked to forums root using this rewrite rule :)

Regarding other 2 points: sure, we'll adjust the vba add-on module code accordingly in the next vBSEO Sitemap Generator release.

Thank you for feedback! :)

Installed on the omgboards.com network :) works great. tnx again!

I just tried again... I really must step away from the keyboard after midnight. :p Uh, nevermind... I realize now, after much caffiene, what I was misreading last night.

Cool.

Thanks! :banana:

I logged into http://www.example.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/ without supplying any password, even tried on another PC and it didn't ask for password authentication, I'm using 3.5.4, any help?

Did you define a password in the AdminCP for the Sitemap Generator? (It's called "Run Code" I think.)

hi
i am using 3.5.4

i intstalled generator but i have some problems

firstly, http://www.xxxxx.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz
is this my sitemap location? google couldn't find that
and when i looked at my ftp, i didn't see anything about sitemap (txt or smth else)

also is someting else needed for using this?