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Originally Posted by bzcomputers

There are some characters that Google does not like to see in sitemaps and will error out when trying to read them. vBSEO Sitemap should encode all urls correctly so this isn't an issue but I've have run across at least a couple characters that aren't coded correctly. Offhand I can't remember exactly the ones I've personally run into but I believe the ampersand was one of them ("&" should be changed to "&" in any url reference). I remember the ampersand was definitely an issue for me if it wasn't coded as "&" I ran across this error a couple times when I was adding urls to the "extra-urls.txt" file.

Whenever Google would give me a sitemap error, my solution was to check my latest sitemap manually and see if there was an odd character in any thread/post title url. Usually I would find one, then I would just go to the forum edit the thread title, recreate the sitemap and all was good.

Originally Posted by smirkley

Also, do not use all the settings in vbseo sitemap.

Indexing the "post" settings as on, may produce considerable 404 errors in webmaster tools. That settings will list incorrect url's in sitemaps. (I am using pretty urls)

Thanks for your brief reply on your first post i agree with you because it was same case with me then i change the thread title when i catch error in manual checking but still google webmaster make me anger and i am not indexing posts