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vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator - vBulletin 3.5.x
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Note: Version 2.5 replaces all previous versions of the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator, and now includes support for all the new URL types in vBulletin 3.8.x.

Overview
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Providing Google, Yahoo, Ask sitemaps is an essential step towards improving your forums.

The "vBSEO Google Sitemaps" plugin provides a solution that allows your forum to be indexed by the Google (and also Yahoo and Ask) search engines faster, more completely, more effectively, and with less bandwidth consumption.

The ultimate goal is to help you achieve more web traffic for your forum.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Google's Description of GSM

https://services.google.com/inquiry/publishertools?hl=en_US
Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your site?s representation in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google. You get a smarter crawl because you can provide Google with specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently it changes.

Note: This plugin is fully compliant with vBSEO 3.x version. The current version is vBSEO 3.2. However, if you are running vBSEO, please upgrade to vBSEO 3.2 or greater before installing.

Compatibility
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Fully compatible with:

vBulletin 3.0.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x
vBulletin Blogs 1.0.x and 2.0.x *Optional
vBSEO 2.x, 3.x *Optional

What does it do?

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Auto-generates a Google XML sitemap for all of your specified forum URL types (including vBulletin Blog URLs).
Auto-generates a Yahoo text sitemap for all of your specified forum URL types.
Auto-notifies Google when a new sitemap is generated.
Automatically sends you a summary of the sitemap generation via email each time it is created.
Includes only publicly accessible forums and threads.
Allows Google/Yahoo to find all of your forum URLs without having to spider the forum to find the links.
Allows Google/Yahoo to find your forum URLs without having to account for query string and/or session ID information.
Allows Google to give precedence to crawling your higher priority forum pages.
Allows Google to give precedence to crawling your forum pages that change more frequently.
Allows you to conserve bandwidth by more efficiently facilitating the crawling processes for GoogleBot and Yahoo Slurp.
Is 100% compatible with the static CRUs (Content Relevant URLs) used by vBSEO-enabled forums.

How does it work?
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Whenever it is scheduled or invoked via the URL, this plugin will generate both the Google XML formatted and the Yahoo text formatted sitemaps. If you selected "Yes" to the Google auto-notification setting, Google will be notified each time the sitemap is generated. The Yahoo sitemap must be manually submitted to http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request/.

Google Sitemap files are gzipped
Forum and thread pages are listed with pagination (i.e. all pages for each forums/thread are included in the sitemap)
Maximum Priority is set for Sticky threads.
Optimization for sitemap generation on large forums.

Automated Reporting Tool
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The vBSEO Sitemap includes a report tool, allowing you to track your progress. To access your reports enter the following URL:

http://www.example.com/forums/vbseo_sitemap/

NOTE: Replace "http://www.example.com/forums/" with the full URL to your vB forum root.

You will be required to login by providing your "Sitemap Interface Access Password" from your vBSEO Sitemap settings in:

vBulletin Admin CP (for 3.5.x/3.6.x/3.7.x/3.8.x users) OR
vbseo_sitemap.php configuration file (for 3.0.x users) located in the vbseo_sitemap directory in your forum root.

Once you successfully login, you will be provided with a list of 'Useful Links'. Here are the 4 main links:

Show Reports List
The 'Show Reports List' link will display a report of each time your vBSEO Sitemap generator executed, including the (1) date, (2) run time, (3) total URLs included, and (4) and change in # of URLs included from the last generation.

Each vBSEO Sitemap generation record will include a (1) "View details" and (2) "Remove record" link. The "View Details" link shows more detailed information about the sitemap generated. The "Remove record" will permanently delete the record from your reports.

Show Sitemap Downloads Log
The 'Show Sitemap Downloads Log' link will display a report of each time your vBSEO Sitemap was downloaded by either a search engine (GoogleBot or Yahoo) or by another user agent (i.e. Web browser, etc.).

The report includes the (1) date, (2) name of sitemap file downloaded, (3) Bot, (4) IP address of the downloader, and the (5) User-agent.

Each vBSEO Sitemap download record will include a "Remove record" link which will permanently delete the record from your reports.

Run Sitemap Generator
The 'Run Sitemap Generator' link will automatically regenerate your Google and Yahoo sitemaps.

Your Forums Homepage
The 'Your Forums Homepage' link is a quick link back to your forum homepage.

Additional Links
Additional links to various other related SEO resources are also included.

Click "Install"
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Please click "Install" to show your support for this script.

Installation & Configuration for vB 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x as a Plugin
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Follow the installation/upgrade instructions provided in the docs/readme.html file.

Google Webmaster Accounts
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It is NOT required for you to have a Google Webmaster account to run the vBulletin Google Sitemaps plugin. If you decide to setup an account for testing purposes you can do so here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login?sourceid=gsm&subid=us-et-about2

Copyright & Licensing

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vBSEO Google Sitemaps plugin is copyright protected by Crawlability Inc.
You are free to download and install this plugin on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid vB license.
Unauthorized distribution of any code and/or documentation, whole or in part, included here is strictly prohibited.
In addition, the following copyright notice must be maintained.

vBSEO(TM) ? 2005-2009 Crawlability, Inc.

Revision History
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02/22/2009 - Version 2.5 Released

NEW FEATURE: Blog tags URLs are included.
NEW FEATURE: Social Group Discussion URLs are included.
NEW FEATURE: Smart Priority applied for the following URL types

Show Post
Member Profiles
Forum Display
Poll Results
Blog Entries
Member Profile Albums
Social Groups
Social Groups Discussions
Social Group Pictures
Tags
Blog Tags

UPDATE: Compatible with vBulletin 3.8.x. Includes the following updated settings:

Priority Range - Show Post
Priority Range - Member Profiles
Priority Range - Forum Display
Priority Range - Poll Results
Priority Range - Show Thread
Priority Range - Blog Entries
Priority Range - Member Profile Albums
Priority Range - Social Groups
Priority Range - Social Group Pictures
Priority Range - Tags

Fix: Social Group Discussion database error is fixed.

Upgrade Instructions
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(1) Follow the installation/upgrade instructions provided in the docs/readme.html file.

(2) For versions of vBulletin 3.6.x only: Open "Schedule Manager" in the vBulletin Admin Control Panel (admincp); Remove existing scheduled task for Sitemap Generator if you have one.
Note: The new task will be automatically setup when you import the XML product file.

Other vBSEO Plugins

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vBSEO Affiliate Program
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We welcome you to join the vBSEO Affiliate Program.

NeutralizeR · #**782** 03-20-2006, 03:50 AM

Quote:

URL not allowed (Line 55) in Sitemap http://www.msxlabs.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz with URL http://www.msxlabs.com/html/emoticons.php

This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.

Using version 1.6.1.

extra-urls.txt:

Quote:

MotMann · #**783** 03-20-2006, 07:11 AM

In my .htacces:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml\.gz|txt))$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

i Think, i have the wrong URL in Google.

i addet http://www.xxxxxxxxx.de/vbseo_sitemap/ and then i have errorcode 1 in google.

bada_bing · #**784** 03-20-2006, 04:36 PM

Installed.. I will see how things look within the next few days.. Hopefully I can move my site ranks from 3 to higher with this..

iojam · #**785** 03-20-2006, 08:17 PM

Loco.M

Quote:

"Unsupported file format"

please PM me the URL of your sitemap.

MotMann

you should use the followin URL for google submission:
http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz
http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_1.xml.gz
http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_2.xml.gz
etc.
(although the files are *physically* stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder)

carwash,

if you have .htaccess file already, you should merge the contents of both files.

BillP,
yes, this is just a displaying mistype, you can ignore it

NeutralizeR,

you have included URLs that point *above* the forums folder where sitemap files reside. This is disallowed by google and you should move sitemap to the root.
You can do the following:
1. create .htaccess file in the root like this:

Quote:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml\.gz|txt))$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

2. Submit to your google webmaster account individual sitemap files referring to the root of your site:
http://www.msxlabs.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz
http://www.msxlabs.com/sitemap_2.xml.gz
etc.

3. You should not submit index file, because it contains links to sitempa files in forum/ folder. Note that v1.7 of vBSEO Sitemap Generator will have a special option to address this non-standard configurationa nd let you submit index file as well.

T2DMan · #**786** 03-20-2006, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iojam

MotMann

you should use the followin URL for google submission:
http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_index.xml.gz
http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_1.xml.gz
http://yourforumsroot/sitemap_2.xml.gz
etc.
(although the files are *physically* stored in vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder)

Please note that the purpose of the sitemap_index is to store all the other sitemap_1-x file names. The index file is the only one that should be submitted.

Unless of course you have a situation similar to NeutralizeR where you should not be submitting the index, rather each individual file, and using htaccess to access via the root etc.

Quote:

Originally Posted by iojam

NeutralizeR
you have included URLs that point *above* the forums folder where sitemap files reside. This is disallowed by google and you should move sitemap to the root.
You can do the following:....

T2DMan · #**787** 03-20-2006, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Installed.. I will see how things look within the next few days.. Hopefully I can move my site ranks from 3 to higher with this..

How do you expect to see your Google PR increase with using a Google sitemap???
or How do you expect your SERPS to increase with using the site map???

Using a sitemap may help a small amount, since Google will find your pages easier, therefore be able to factor in the internal linking better. But in general, having a sitemap only speeds up the inevitable of what Google and Yahoo would have done anyway.

To achieve any real increase in Google PR, you need:

more inbound links
and also to use the vbseo url rewriter - one of the benefits is that you only have one url per page, and the url is not a string, therefore Google assigns higher PR per page, and higher rankings since the PR is concentrated onto one page.

To achieve best increase in SERP rankings, you need:

more inbound links
vbseo url rewriter
and better onpage SEO - my speciality - see sig link
- selecting search phrases that people are searching for, and that you stand a chance at ranking for
- using those search phrases in the proper places on the page

All the best for your journies up the SERP's.

NeutralizeR · #**788** 03-21-2006, 05:53 AM

Thanks for the reply. It's working...

but should i submit each individual file one by one? there are 8 sitemap files at the moment (1 to 8) and i think there will be more when i have more threads, posts and members. Isn't there any automated function for this? or will the version 1.7 include this feature?

Regards

beansbaxter · #**789** 03-21-2006, 11:23 PM

How do you view the sitemap reports? And how do you know if this is installed correctly and is working with Google?

Why do you have to edit .htaccess with that info when the included file already has that?

And where is the extra-urls.txt file at??

trigon · #**790** 03-22-2006, 12:49 AM

i have the problem tha my sitemap is empy, dont know why.
plz take a look here: http://www.hayaletler.tk/forum/vbseo_sitemap/
(i pm you the passwort for it)
here i copied the log:
Report:
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Click the following link for your vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Report:
http://www.hayaletler.tk/forum/vbseo_sitemap/

Summary:
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Forum Display: 0
Show Thread: 0
Show Post:
Member Profiles: 3729
Archive: 1

Total Indexed URLs: 3731
Total Processing Time: 0.76 seconds

Google ping: Successful.

bada_bing · #**791** 03-22-2006, 03:04 AM

I am trying to submit my sitemaps to google and get this message

Please correct the errors below.

Enter your Sitemap URL below:
http://www.mysite.com/sitemap_1.xml.qz
We couldn't find the Sitemap at the location you provided. Please make sure the Sitemap URL is correct and resubmit your Sitemap.

What am I doing wrong?

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