[iojam]

Zia,

hmm that means it does'nt include the urls re-written by any free url-rewriter(found in vb.org) ?

Yes, that is correct.

do we need to put a button on homepage/everypage that will linked to
www.site.com/sitemap.xml or www.site.com/sitemap.xml.gz

This is not required - you are informing the search engines about your sitemap location directly instead.


trigon,

although sitemap files are physically located in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder, you should link to them as http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz etc (it is achieved by using mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess)


bruss

I have installed and everything looks good... However when i look at my stats i am only see the google bot crawl the index. Not the forums.. Any thoughts?

You may want to manually submit your individual sitemap files to Google webmaster account if you have only index file downloaded by the SE bots.


lawahdy,

now i have a modified htaccess that covers more areas in vb.. but when i install it .. nothing works.. they same old html extentions and names but it is not linking to them.. i'm using vbseo 1.6

Do you mean that sitemap files are not opened correctly for you? If so, you can try to move "(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)..." line to the top of .htaccess (right *after* "RewriteEngine on" line)