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Katelynn, first off, take a look at, and sign up to Google Webmaster Central which can be accessed from this link http://www.google.com/webmasters/ from here, click on 'Sign in to Webmaster tools'.

Once you have submitted your domain and sitemap you will learn all kinds of stuff and errors that Google is encountering when visiting your site, along with tons of other really useful stuff!

As to the sitemap stuff from your vbadvanced homepage (which is the same scenario as mine), you will need to add another .htaccess file into the root folder with the following details:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

And pay particular attention to forums/ because you may need to change this to 'forum' or whatever variation you are using to access your forum.

Please note that I'm still awaiting a reply back from vbSEO as regards the error Google has picked up on with the sitemap URL errors!