I second this. Google is giving me 404 errors and yahoo says the file doesn't exist. A decent walkthrough for those who don't have vBSEO installed would be much appreciated.

Anybody who use vBSEO Sitemap Generator 2.1 and DownlaodsII with vBSEO DownloadsII Extension, than you should read this Thread in vBSEO Forum:
http://www.vbseo.com/f23/downloads-i...tml#post137424

Can anyone confirm that this works correctly with 3.7??

Thanks!

Works fine for me & I'm on vBulletin 3.7 RC2

Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to configure this add-on so that it saves its sitemaps to the forum root rather than the vbseo_sitemap directory?

i installed sitemap but the sitemaps generating inside data folder but when looking inside vb_sitemap page it says our Google Sitemap Index URL /forum/sitemap.xml.gz do i have to move the site maps inside data folder manually to forum root?

or when generating site map getting this

[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_12.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [4,145.8Kb mem used] [11s (+1s)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #13 [4,145.8Kb mem used] [11s (+0s)]

is that right?

hi all,
need some help.
I installed vbseo sitemap as per the procedure given here. all generated sitemaps are created in data folder, whichis given 777 permission.
Another thing in the admin cp, under vbseo settings, url of sitemap was blank, and give it the path like this "http://www.mydomain.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data/

Under vbseo reports, i checked the generated sitemap links and clicked it and its working...
Hope i did everything correctly.

Next i went to google.com/sitemaps
and added a site like this " www.mydomain.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data"
because previously when i put www.mydomain.com/forums/ " its not accepting giving error like sitemap should be in homepage, or if you want to use www.mydomain.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/data as the link for sitemap, use it as your website in your accounts.
after this i added the sitemap "sitemap_index.xml.gz" and got message ok.
and 3 other sitemaps too got updated and status is ok.

But still it shows, the total urls in sitemap is zero
indexed urls in sitemap is zero..
what does it mean. Because while in admin cp when sitemaps are generated it showed 1,42,000 urls and divided in to 3 parts...

Can anyone explain me why it shows zero urls, because i'm not getting any errors.

Or is there any problem with static or dynamic urls, i'm not an expert here so guide me. My forum is having more than 80k threads but not a single page is indexed in url.

Or is it important to have vbseo, i read in forum 'not'...
please help me out, today only...as its sunday and i'm free to put all my time in updating my forum...

thanks in advance
zia

virb, raagaswaram,

you should create .htaccess file as described in installation instructions, and you will be able to access sitemaps as if they were in forum folder, although files are stored in data/ folder.


ziahaq21,

you should submit http://www.mydomain.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz to Google (not http://www.mydomain.com/forums/vbseo...p_index.xml.gz)

I have my forum in a folder www.mysite.com/forums/ I already have a sitemap for the rest of my site in the site root.
Will I be able to use this mod to add the forums sitemap into my static root sitemap.xml or is there another mod that can do this?
My forum also uses rewrite urls like thread122.html (not vbseo or zoints) would this be compatable?

Hello,

you can submit both sitemaps to Google, one for forum and another one for non-forum pages.