[Alfa1]

I have a couple of questions. I have read the first 32 pages of this topic, but did not find an answer:

1. When I go to my google webmaster account, it won't let me upload the sitemap, since it is not located in www.mysite.com/ but in www.mysite.com/forum/vbseo_sitemap/
The .htaccess should have fixed this, but didn't. My .htaccess is located at www.mysite.com/forum/
I do not have a .htaccess at www.mysite.com/
Is this the problem? Or has it to do with the server settings? mod_rewrite is loaded on my linux server. url_rewriter.tags is set as: a=href,area=href,frame=src,form=,fieldset=
http://www.mysite.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz does work.
In the past I have failed to turn on url rewriting in Links & Downloads Manager. So, I wouldn't be surprised if there are some settings that need to be changed. Is there anything else I need to do?

2. I have vbadvanced, Links & Downloads Manager, Photopost & GARS installed. This is a large part of my site. For which hacks are there add-ons available? Where can I find them?

3. The log shows that the googlebot downloaded my sitemap files and I have received an email. Does this mean google wil crawl the pages submitted? Or can the problem under 1. still get in the way?

4. Is including showpost pages wise? I read somewhere that it is not, but I have no clue myself. Please explain.

It will be most interesting to see the results. I just discovered that Google only indexed a couple hundred of my forum pages. I've got 37.000 (without showpost).