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It says, Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://www.officechai.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

• but when i open filezilla, and go to this path, /public_html/forum, i dont see that xml.gz file. if i dont find it, how will google? but yes, i can see a similar file in /public_html/forum/vbseo_sitemap/data
• what is the path I should give to google? It says, You have recently submitted one or more Sitemaps for this site. Processing Sitemaps may take some time. Check again later to see if pages from your Sitemaps are included in Google's index. and the file path I filled int that text box is forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz
• moreover google only accepts xml format, what is that xml.gz format? Do i have to convert it before submitting to google?
  

Which step is correct and which is incorrect; how should i rectify the incorrect one. thanks for the product, and your time to us.