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D|ver

sorry for my noob question, but i want to submit my sitemaps to both google and yahoo manually

which one is for google and which for yahoo?

sitemap.txt.gz is for Yahoo submission
sitemap_*.xml.gz are for Google submission

stormblast

Are you sure that it's not a PHP5 compatibility issue?

The PHP5 compatibility was fixed in v1.1 and line numbers you quoted do not correspond to the source code of the latest version.

ConqSoft

If we manually add the sitemap to Google, what URL should we be using?

I used http://www.mysite.com/forums/sitemap_1.xml.gz (which works in my browser), but I got an HTTP 500 error status when I checked Google.

Is it possible that you had a problem with your server in the time when google downloaded the sitemap? If it is visible correctly in browser, googlebot will get it as well. Please try just to resubmit it.

Disi

vBSEO Staff

we stille got the Problem with the htaccess file if useing vBSEO and the Google verification file!

If you have a "Redirect to homepage" option selected for "Fille not found" handling AND yo want to see the stats for sitemap at Google, you should *temporarily* disable the option in vbseocp to complete the verification.

MrNase

How can we be sure the files get submitted to Google?

You can register for Google Webmaster account and manually submit each sitemap file to track its status at http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

bluenote2

The sitemaps are stored under forum-root/vbseo_sitemaps/data

Alhtough sitemap files are stored in the data folder (to simplify file permissions setup during installation), the URL that is sent to Google links to forumroot. This is achived by using .htaccess mod_rewrite directives.