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vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator
Version: 2.5, by vBSEO vBSEO is offline
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Released: 07-06-2008 Last Update: 02-20-2009 Installs: 1620
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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.

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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
  1. Show Post
  2. Member Profiles
  3. Forum Display
  4. Poll Results
  5. Blog Entries
  6. Member Profile Albums
  7. Social Groups
  8. Social Groups Discussions
  9. Social Group Pictures
  10. Tags
  11. Blog Tags
UPDATE: Compatible with vBulletin 3.8.x. Includes the following updated settings:
  1. Priority Range - Show Post
  2. Priority Range - Member Profiles
  3. Priority Range - Forum Display
  4. Priority Range - Poll Results
  5. Priority Range - Show Thread
  6. Priority Range - Blog Entries
  7. Priority Range - Member Profile Albums
  8. Priority Range - Social Groups
  9. Priority Range - Social Group Pictures
  10. 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.

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  #722  
Old 02-09-2009, 09:07 PM
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steven.hartland,

try to downloads sitemap files via FTP (from vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder) and check if they are correct.
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Old 02-09-2009, 10:19 PM
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Thanks for the suggestion iojam, I was already in the data dir when checking the compression with zcat.

I've done some more digging and its definitely something to do with the gzip compression turning that off in the config fixes the issue. We've not had any issues with standard gzip support on the forums, but something in the sitemap code seems to be triggering an issue with it.

After looking at the code which is only a few lines I can only conclude the issue is with the underlying php function. There are a number of bugs still open in php's bug tracker which may be the cause.

For the time being we will live with gzip off.
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Old 02-10-2009, 03:19 AM
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Code:
Warning: main(): Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/cafedostlar.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(): Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html in /var/www/vhosts/cafedostlar.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/cafedostlar.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(): Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomainr.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/global.html' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 31

Warning: main(): Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/includes/config.html in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 34

Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/includes/config.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 34

Warning: main(): Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/includes/config.html in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 34

Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomainr.com/httpdocs/forums/includes/config.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 34

Warning: main(): Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/includes/config.html in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 34

Warning: main(/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/includes/config.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 34

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/includes/config.html' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forums/vbseo_sitemap/index.php on line 34
Help me please
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Do you have .html vBulletin package installed for your forum? If not you should have this in vbseo_sitemap_config.php file (which is default):
PHP Code:
       define('VBSEO_PHP_EXT', 'php'); 
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Thanks ioJam
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iojam View Post
Sym0n,

in order to redirect www to non-www domain, the code will looks like:
Code:
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
and:
Code:
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/forums/$1 [R=301,L]
detailed description can be found here: http://www.vbseo.com/f2/how-setup-ww...directs-21501/
iojam, thanks that code worked. But my situation is slightly different in that I have two different domains (.com and .net) pointing to the same site and don't want them to rewrite the domain.

Quote:
Originally Posted by aciurczak View Post
Sy -

Go to this forum:

http://forum.modrewrite.com

Sign up and post your issue in the new topics forum (new users can only post in that section until they are approved). Post a link in your question to my similar question:

http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?t=23736

and I'm sure they will suggest a working htaccess solution for you very quickly. When they do, post it up back here so the next schmo (after us 2 schmo's) don't have to search the internet and spend hours on what is at its core just a simple question.
aciurczak, cheers mate. I followed your advice and headed over to modrewrite.com. After just my initial post richardk nailed it in one and now it works perfectly.

In case anyone else requires the same thing:

root
Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks 
 
RewriteEngine On 
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.+\.(example\.(com|net))$ 
RewriteRule .* http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
/forum/
Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks 
 
RewriteEngine On 
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.+\.(example\.(com|net))$ 
RewriteRule .* http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] 
 
RewriteRule ^(urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?$ /forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$0 [L]


Sy
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please update for 3.8.1
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Yes please update for 3.8.1 !!!!
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i have this installed and it is making vbseo links causing google to have not found url's
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Works perfect in 3.8.1 I especially love the Site-map Reports page.

Eventually I'll get vbseo but for now this works great as it installed flawlessly and generate a pretty good site map as Google shows it's having no problems accessing the pages. very cool
Thanks again for the Great Free SEO Package :up:
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