forum_maniac,

yes, this is just the question of time in most cases.
The installation of Sitemap Generator should help with this as well.

hello,
i submitted the root sitemap (mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz) to google and i get an error at google sitemaps because the index file is linking to the sitemap files in the subfolders and not the root adress

content of my index sitemap file (mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz):
how can i thange the links by default to:
http://mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz
and
http://mysite.com/sitemap_2.xml.gz
?

can somebody help me?

D|ver,

you can just manually submit these sitemap URLs to Google (instead of index file):
http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz
http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_2.xml.gz

I've been trying to upload my sitemap_index.xml.gz on Google but looking at your instructions via the last few posts, my sitemap_index.xml.gz is not located in those folders. The sitemap_index.xml.gz that was generated is located in the public_html/forums/vBSEO_sitemap/data folder.

Is it supposed to be generating into another folder beside data?

I feel pretty dumb right now.... only had our forum up for a month and I'm learning so please don't laugh at me, but I may as well ask a couple more questions.

I have a robot.txt file uploaded but I'm not sure I need it with this (your) product or not... can you tell me if this is going to interfere with it?

Contents of robot.txt:

Next question... I do not have a .htaccess file on my server. Do I really need one if I use hotlink protection via my control panel? If I do need it can I simply upload the one you provided in this package and if so where do I need to upload it too?

My forum is located at http://www.mysite.com/forums

I don't know if it's appropriate to post a link to my site or not. vBSEO looks interesting too but I'm sure if I even need it or not.

I apologize for the ignorant questions and will really appreciate any help.

i have installed this hack few months ago.......for some odd reason....i have only 5 pages indexed in google...
i have more than 7000 pages indexed both in yahoo and 1300 in msn ....but nothing in google....only 5

All the Web: 7,810
Google/AOL/HotBot: 5
MSN: 1,343
Yahoo!/AltaVista/Fast: 7,840


at the google site map webpage it says it has downloaded ..no errors.....and nothing seems wrong there....i see msn and yahoo spider regularly but googlse sppider comes and checks the index and in few minutes its gone.....

any idea about this??

http://www.hostmypiconline.com/image... report019.jpg

I apologize in advance if this has been covered. I just installed the mod and when I look at my Google sitemaps page I see errors in the sitemap as follows:

Somehow the domain is appearing twice. I have vBAdvanced installed and added the "vbseo_sm_vba.php" in the configuration box for "Addon Generator Modules".

The line in that script to "uncomment the following line" is uncommented (by default it seems).

Please advise as to what I am doing wrong.

Okay I know that we manually submit to Yahoo at:
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/

What URL do put "enter the URL for your page" space? My forum is in my domain root.

Do we submit the gzipped text file or do we have to unzip it first?

Thanks!

ShackMaster
although physicall sitemap files are store din vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, you should submit http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz.
It works using the rewrite rule entered in .htaccess (if you have hot-link protection .htaccess file already, you can add the rewrite rules for vBSEO Sitemap generator at the end of file).

Jim O,

please add the following below this line:
treasureman,

you can submit gzipped sitemap file to Yahoo:
http://yourforumsroot/sitemap.txt.gz

I see this.. I recently moved servers and this is broken

http://kansassoftball.net/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxxxxxx/httpdocs/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 37

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/httpdocs/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php on line 56
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I see this when i log in to direct run

Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxxxxx/httpdocs/includes/class_core.php on line 1573

If this is already posted i am sorry...