Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator

vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap 3.0
We are extremely pleased to inform the vBulletin.org community that a fully revamped version of the vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap (previously "vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator") v.3.0, is being released to all licensed vBulletin users effective immediately!

Note: The NEW vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap 3.0 replaces all previous versions of the "vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator", and includes support for all the new URL types in vBulletin 4.x.

New in the vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap v.3.0
The new sitemap alters the way data is structured in fundamental ways. Sitemap 3.0 segments different content areas into separate files, so you end up with a unique set of files per content type: forums, blogs, cms, groups, albums, members, tags, etc. In addition, the new sitemap has an extended priority feature that utilizes the built in 'weight' tool of the vBulletin XML sitemap generator for individual forums, CMS sections and articles to act as a multiplier.

We believe these changes are responsible for delivering increased returns for a number of forums from customers and testers we've been tracking. Please track your own progress via your Google Webmaster tools account, Google Analytics or Gravity Insights.

A Clean and Beautiful Interface
The new sitemap also features a clean and beautiful interface, built from the ground up. We believe it reflects the quality, precision and attention to detail placed into each aspect of this release. We are passionate about building software, and great software is beautiful inside, and out.

Overview
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The "vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap" plugin provides an easy to use solution that allows your forum to be indexed by all major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask, faster, more completely, more effectively, and with less bandwidth consumption.

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

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 3.5.x versions. The current version is vBSEO 3.5.2. If you are running vBSEO, please upgrade to vBSEO 3.5.2 (or greater) before installing for optimal results.

Compatibility
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Fully compatible with:

• vBulletin 3.8.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x
• vBulletin Blogs *Optional
• vBulletin CMS *Optional
• vBSEO 3.5.2 + higher *Optional

What does it do?
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• Auto-generates an XML sitemap for all of your specified forum URL types (including vBulletin Blog & CMS URLs).
• NEW! Groups forum areas into individual sitemaps grouped by section type for greater flexibility, for example:
  • sitemap_forum_X.xml.gz
  • sitemap_tags_X.xml.gz
  • sitemap_cms_X.xml.gz
• Auto-notifies Search Engines when a new sitemap is generated (optional)
• Automatically sends you a summary of the sitemap generation via email each time it is created (optional)
• Includes only publicly accessible forums and threads and includes the option of not including any specific public forums
• Allows Search Engines to find all of your forum URLs without having to spider the forum to find the links. Great for Deep Page linking!
• Allows Search Engines to find your forum URLs without having to account for query string and/or session ID information.
• Allows Search Engines to give precedence to crawling your higher priority forum pages.
• Allows Search Engines 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, Yahoo Slurp, Ask's Teoma, Bing's msnbot, and other search engine bots.
• Is 100% compatible with the static CRUs (Content Relevant URLs) used by vBSEO-enabled forums.
• Is 100% compatible with the 'Friendly URLs' offered default with vb4.x.

How does it work?
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Whenever it is scheduled or invoked via the URL, this plugin will generate an XML formatted that search engines are able to read and parse. If you selected "Yes" to the Auto-notification setting, The 4 major search engines will be notified each time the sitemap is generated.

• Google Sitemap files are gzipped for space savings
• 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 -> vBSEO -> vBSEO Sitemap Settings
  

Once you successfully login, you will see a number of tabs. Here are the 4 main links:

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.

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 (Identified by the Bot's name) 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.

Search Engine Bots Activity Log
Use it to track Search engine activity on your sitemaps. This area displays how often, and what volume of pages search engines visit your site on a daily basis.

Run Generator
The 'Run Sitemap Generator' link will automatically regenerate your vBSEO Search Engine XML Site sitemaps.

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

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

Installation, Upgrade, & Configuration
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Follow the installation/upgrade instructions provided in the docs/readme.html file.

Webmaster Accounts
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It is NOT required for you to have a Webmaster account on the search engines' websites to run the plugin, however, we recommend everyone set one up for tracking purposes.

• Google Webmaster Central. Get data about crawling, indexing and search traffic. Increase traffic to your site.
• Bing Toolbox
• https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Copyright & Licensing
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• vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap 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) ? 2010 Crawlability, Inc.

Revision History
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11/11/2010 - Version 3.0 Released
Compatible with vB3.7.x+ and vB4.x+
NEW FEATURE: All CMS URLs are supported
NEW FEATURE: Sitemap Groups by content type
NEW FEATURE: Enhanced layout and design of the Sitemap Generator Control Panel
NEW FEATURE: XSL Style sheet of the xml files for easier human reading
NEW FEATURE: Extended Priority. Utilizes the built in 'weight' tool of the vBulletin XML generator for all content areas (Forums, Blogs, CMS, Albums, etc.) to act as a multiplier. (vb4 Suite only)

Other vBSEO Plugins
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• vBSEO - vBulletin Search Engine Optimization

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

[veyissen]

Originally Posted by iojam

veyissen,

check the html source of that page to see if there is a database error.

No, there is no db error.caps added. just html codes. I waited approximately 10 minutes but nothing happend. Actually, I was using zoints tags and sitemap version 2.2 at 2 months ago. ne error was happening at that time. all my tags was adding to sitemap with a zoints plugin. and I decided to use vb tags system , converted all zoints tag to vb tags with a convertor. and now we are here. just waiting waiting and nothing happens. If I disable to " include tags pages" , there is no problem. But I want to add the tags to my sitemap. so what should I try now?

[SECTION START] tags [8,056.2Kb mem used] [1,064s (+2s)]

[veyissen]

ok I almost solve the problem. my sitemap URL number is 15.000 per file. I decrease it to 10.000 and it pass the point. I will try again...

[zurnaforum]

thanksss

[8ballstudios]

Installed. Works great!

[Dollarsign]

Hey guys,

I have installed this plugin! It seems to work fine for me

Is there anything else I should do after installing it? Like anything to do with google webmaster or will google and all the other search engines find the files that this plugin generated on my site perfectly fine?

I got this message after running the generator:

Report Details
Generated Sitemap Details
Date 2009-05-19 20:04
Processing time 2.60 s
Total URLs 3,321 (-)
Forumdisplay URLs 19 (-)
Showthread URLs 335 (-)
ShowPost URLs 2,586 (-)
Archive URLs 176 (+176)
Member Profile URLs 178 (-)
Poll Results URLs 4 (-)
Blog Entries URLs 0 (-)
Blog Tag URLs 0 (-)
Album URLs 0 (-)
Social Group URLs 1 (-)
Tag URLs 22 (-)
Sitemap Files
Index File sitemap_index.xml.gz
Sitemap File #1 sitemap_1.xml.gz (3,321 URLs, 656.62Kb) 656.30Kb uncompressed
Text Format File urllist.txt (0.00Kb)
Search Engines Pings
Google Successful
Yahoo Successful
Ask Successful
Moreover Successful
Live Successful

[kevinh]

How do I manually test the site map generation?

I don't want to wait until it creates a scheduled task at 2am.

Thanks,
Kevin

[mach5des]

This works really well thank you.

You update the URL for Yahoo Site Explore.

The current URL in your plug-in is:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htmlfree/request/

The correct URL is
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Thanks.

[Fleud]

@Abhik:
Post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=240

Are you using google chrome? I found that when I switched to a different browser it read it okay. With Chrome it seemed to have that error.

[iojam]

veyissen,

try to increase memory_limit and max_execution_time in PHP configuration.

kevinh,

you can manually create sitemap using vbseo_sitemap/ interface.

[jack the lad]

I keep getting this sitemap error message on my Google Webmaster Tools:

Sitemap errors and warnings
Line Status Details
8 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/
May 25, 2009
14 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=36
May 25, 2009
20 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=43
May 25, 2009
26 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=37
May 25, 2009
32 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=14
May 25, 2009
38 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=15
May 25, 2009
44 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=16
May 25, 2009
50 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://#####.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=17
May 25, 2009
56 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://######.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=18
May 25, 2009
62 URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. Help URL:
Problem detected on: http://hellophoto.co.nz/forumdisplay.php?f=19
May 25, 2009
Go to navigation Go to Sitemap details content

Googles help states:

URL not allowed

Google has detected some URLs that appear to be at a higher level or different domain than the Sitemap file location. If you receive this error, try moving your Sitemap file to a higher location in your site and submitting again. For instance, if your Sitemap is listed under http://www.example.com/mysite/sitemap.xml, the following URLs are not valid for that Sitemap:

http://www.example.com/ - it's at a higher level than the Sitemap
http://www.example.com/yoursite/ - it's in a directory parallel to the Sitemap
You should also check that the urls all begin with the same domain as your Sitemap location. For instance, if your Sitemap is listed under http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml, the following URLs are not valid for that Sitemap:

http://www.google.com - it's in the google.com domain rather than the example.com domain
http://example.com/ - it's missing the initial www
www.example.com/ - it's missing the protocol (http)
https://www.example.com/ - it's using a different protocol (https rather than http)
Any URLs in the Sitemap that are not denied are processed normally.

My sitemap xml file is at: http://#####.co.nz/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz
and the .htaccess file is at http://#####.co.nz/ I have no Forum file so all sub files are off my root directory.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jack