http://myforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz and http://www.mysitename.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz do not work for me or for google.
Yahoo faithfully downloads my sitemap every week. But other MSN, Google and Ask do not. Pings to all SE are successful. robots.txt is good.
I have followed installation instructions.
How do I fix this?

i submitted the page to google and came back with errors for
http://www.coupontradercentral.com/ctc/sitemap_1.xml.gz
and
http://www.coupontradercentral.com/ctc/sitemap_2.xml.gz

I have no idea whats going wrong with this??
I took a look inside the .htaccess fold thats inside /data/ and that one said "deny from all" not sure if thats correct or if the may be playing a part in this??

what is robots.txt and do i need it on my forums for this mod to work right?

No...robots.txt just controls spider activity.

* if what you submitted, the urllist file, differs from the one you create with vbseositemap, and vbseositemap one includes the old ones urls, then you better submit the new one.

1) googlebot may be indexing your site content (even if the site doesnt have sitemap)
2) if you have adsense ads on site's pages, then google media agent may be checking content for ad relevancy.
so it doesnt have to be sitemap related all the time. if you submit and it succesfully reads the sitemap file, you will surely see the activity in vbseositemap reports.

what am i suppose to submit to yahoo and google, if anything? direct link to the xml.gz file?

is it worth it use sitemap without vbseo?

I reinstalled vbseo generator and deleted the vbseo_sitemap folder form the forum root the uploaded a fresh copy that I downloaded just now from here.
when I went to the vBSEO Sitemap Reports I found that the url of (Your Google Sitemap Index) still there before I generate it. after I generated it it still the same as before. and the sitemap ends with .xml not
with .gz as in the other website...

I've done everything that mentioned... but the problem still there..
hopeless

i'm having problem in getting sitemap. Here's what i did
uploaded all the files as per instructions in folder (forum) under my root folder i.e
www.mydomain/forums/
here i installed vbseo_sitemap,
i gave 777 permission to data folder
i also updated.htaccess file too
everything is done i think correctly.

but how to add sitemap
i visited www.google.com/sitemaps
there i don't know what to put, in this forum sometimes i see vbseo_sitemap.xml.gz
and sometimes different
do i have to put like this
www.mydomain.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap.xml.gz or
http://www.mydomain.com/forums/vbseo...sitemap.xml.gz

Can anyone just mention everything from start to end on how to install and what files have to change, and in which folder we have to install, whether root, or else. Please if anyone did installed correctly give me the step by step procedure. I will be very greatful to him

waiting for someone to help me out.