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Originally Posted by Kirk93

I've only just noticed that this mod doesn't work for me. According to the logs, there is no bot activity on my site (even know I see them on "Who's Online"); how do I fix this?

Are you supposed to manually submit vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz etc to Webmasters?

Also, which ones should you submit?

Yes, you need to submit the index file ONLY to search engines (namely Google & Bing). Submitting the other files won't hurt but there will also be no benefit. The other files are linked through the index file and will be automatically scanned as long as the index file is submitted to the search engines.


Submittion url should look like:

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

Once submitted the first time, search engines will know where it is and continually look for it and search for changes/updates. You can also set up VBSEO Sitemap to automatically notify search engines each time it is updated (it is a setting). This may get your site updates indexed a few hours quicker depending on how often your site is already being scanned by the search engines. The auto-notify currently only works for Google & Bing. They are the two largest search engines anyway and where probably 90+% of your search engine traffic is coming from, so it is a handy feature.