[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by Kirk93

Thank you for the information.

I decided to disable the default one and use this.

Please tell me; do I need to manually add the sitemap to my webmasters account as well? If so, which file do I submit?

I was previously using the four sitemaps generated by vBulletin.

You don't have to submit it, but I recommend you do. If submitted the search engines will show you how many submitted links are indexed versus the total links submitted.

You only need to submit the index sitemap the search engines will be able to crawl the rest from there. Your submitted sitemap link should look something like: http://www.yoursitename.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

You should also place it in robots.txt so other crawlers and smaller search engines can also find it. I place it in the top line, but you can place anywhere. The line in robots.txt should look like:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursitename.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz