[kall]

Originally Posted by Cloudrunner

Couple of things I noticed. This does run well on a 3.6.4 board. Great mod by the way. However, the documentation is a little lacking.

Therefore, I'll post what I found to be a pain for me to search for:

1. When you have run a successful creation and are going to submit it to Google, you must have a site setup for http://www.your-domain.com/forum/.
2. When you submit your sitemap for spidering you must tell google that it is located at http://www.your-domain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz (your mod_rewrite needs to be working properly and in the /forum/ directory .htaccess file properly to work.

I do have one question though. How does Google know via the auto-notification that it is *my* sitemap that it is being notified about since there is no place for me to add a link or other information to send it to? Just curious is all...

You are actually supposed to create the sitemap for the topmost level.. ie, root, rather than /forums/. The .htaccess does the magic part, and google sees the files as being in root, rather than /forums/vbseo_sitemap/data/.

Google then knows that is the sitemap to update, as it comes from that domain. (To the best of my knowledge).