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vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator for vBulletin 3.6.x, 3.5.x & 3.0.x
Version: 2.5.0, by vBSEO vBSEO is offline
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Released: 11-08-2005 Last Update: 02-20-2009 Installs: 1076
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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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  #602  
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when I run the site map generator all I get is a page of:
Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php

I have checked and rechecked that I did everything right, can anyone tell me what they think is wrong? thank you
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mikeB,

please make sure that you set correct permissions for vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder (this is where all files are saved).
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Well, I have this installed and have it working for the most part.
Except, when I click the Show Reports List and click the links for the sitemap, they do not show up.

The link shows /forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz

This produces a 404 error when I click on it.
When I remove the /forums and manually enter the url mydomain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz
It display fine.

Is this a bug or do I have something configured wrong.
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Old 02-08-2006, 04:28 PM
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After using this for a few weeks, I could not be happier with how well it is working. The rankings for my site in Google have skyrocketed to the top, and I'm almost embarrassed to be listed as the first link for some of the searches (but it is definitely driving traffic). I run a motorcycle forum, and one of the subforums is a news forum that pulls in RSS feeds from various motorcycle news sites. This sitemap generator is so effective, that even when web users put in the exact title of the article, often the link to the post on my site is higher than the link to the actual article on the original site. Also, it shows up on Google no more than a day or two behind the posting on my site (showing that Google is definitely using the sitemaps to update their site a heck of a lot quicker than the typical 8-week full cycle of their web bot). Thanks for putting this together....
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cgchris99,

the sitemap files are linked to your forums root. So, in case if your vb root is "mydomain.com/forums", sitemap URL is "mydomain.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz". Please make sure that your .htaccess file resides in forums/ folder too.


aciurczak,

thank you for your comments!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iojam
cgchris99,

the sitemap files are linked to your forums root. So, in case if your vb root is "mydomain.com/forums", sitemap URL is "mydomain.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz". Please make sure that your .htaccess file resides in forums/ folder too.


aciurczak,

thank you for your comments!
I feel like crying ahha after uninstalling this 3 times and reading the instructions with a maginifyning glass I still just get this when I run it:

[homepage] [2,088.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [2,088.0Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 4, total threads: 37664, pages: 942 [2,088.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 63, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,483.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] showthread [2,484.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]

Warning: gzopen(/home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 412

Warning: gzopen(/home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap.txt.gz): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 415

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 423

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 434

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 437

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 434

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 437

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 434

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 437

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 434

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 437

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 434

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 437

this goes on about 40,000 times aghhh

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Did you chmod the directory?
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Did you chmod the directory?
I did "CHMOD 777 the 'vB-root/vbseo_sitemap/data/' folder"

so that means only that one folder right?
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Hi,

/home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder should have 0777 permissions. Please check that.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iojam
Hi,

/home/webadmin/bakermedia.com/html/learn/vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder should have 0777 permissions. Please check that.
I do not kow why but today when I try I get to this point:

[homepage] [2,089.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [2,089.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 4, total threads: 37697, pages: 943 [2,089.7Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 86, total threads: 245, pages: 7 [2,486.3Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 65, total threads: 1683, pages: 43 [2,489.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 12, total threads: 5238, pages: 131 [2,507.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 45, total threads: 1169, pages: 30 [2,141.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 77, total threads: 37, pages: 1 [2,152.9Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 74, total threads: 314, pages: 8 [2,153.4Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 13, total threads: 979, pages: 25 [2,156.2Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 63, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [2,165.1Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 85, total threads: 14, pages: 1 [2,165.6Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] showthread [2,165.8Kb mem used] [0s (+0)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_1.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [2,149.3Kb mem used] [16s (+16)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #2 [2,149.2Kb mem used] [16s (+0)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_2.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [2,149.2Kb mem used] [29s (+13)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #3 [2,149.2Kb mem used] [29s (+0)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_3.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [2,150.7Kb mem used] [39s (+10)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #4 [2,150.6Kb mem used] [39s (+0)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_4.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [2,159.6Kb mem used] [51s (+13)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #5 [2,159.5Kb mem used] [51s (+0)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_5.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [2,160.5Kb mem used] [62s (+11)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #6 [2,160.4Kb mem used] [62s (+0)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_6.xml.gz, number of urls: 20000 [2,161.0Kb mem used] [73s (+11)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #7 [2,160.9Kb mem used] [73s (+0)]

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errors every time at part #7

any idea what that is?

thank you for all of your help!!
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