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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
============================

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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  #1142  
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Blade
Yes Oleg, I did create the sheduled taks in the Admin CP...
Ok. Don't know if this is anyone else's problem, but the .htaccess file in the download folder and the directions in the readme read as follows:

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

But, since my forum is not at root I had to add the folder where my forum and the sitemapname script files are located (/forum/) to the front of the url like this.

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

Now google is identifying them with a green sitemap tag and says "OK" after it finishes.
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Old 07-19-2006, 04:50 PM
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when can you planning port this product to vB 3.6.x ?
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Old 07-21-2006, 01:02 AM
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Hi,

http://www.maloria.com/vbseo_sitemap...p_index.xml.gz

shows my sitemap but

http://www.maloria.com/sitemap.xml doesn't.

My .htaccess file contains:

Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
Any suggestions on how I fix it?
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Old 07-21-2006, 01:04 AM
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The line should be:
Code:
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
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Old 07-21-2006, 01:20 AM
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Dark Blade,

did you try to generate sitemap manually using vbseo_sitemap/ interface?

GrendelKhan{TSU,

the correct URL is http://www.mysite.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz


4yBak,
it should work correctly with vB3.6.0.

Gary King,
the correct URL is http://www.maloria.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz in your case
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Old 07-21-2006, 05:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DrewStr
Ok. Don't know if this is anyone else's problem, but the .htaccess file in the download folder and the directions in the readme read as follows:

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

But, since my forum is not at root I had to add the folder where my forum and the sitemapname script files are located (/forum/) to the front of the url like this.

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

Now google is identifying them with a green sitemap tag and says "OK" after it finishes.
woot! that did it for me!! thanks!



I think the Read Me or posts here should reflect that the .htaccess files needs to reflect the path to the file on one's server, like if you do not have your forums in the root folder (ie: in a "forum" folder). Everyone was just saying "copy this htaccess exactly"....and since I don't really know how to read that code, I glazed over it.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU
woot! that did it for me!! thanks!



I think the Read Me or posts here should reflect that the .htaccess files needs to reflect the path to the file on one's server, like if you do not have your forums in the root folder (ie: in a "forum" folder). Everyone was just saying "copy this htaccess exactly"....and since I don't really know how to read that code, I glazed over it.
Yes, it confused me too. Until I actually bothered to look at the code and try to figure out what was going on. The documentation should definitely be cleaned up a bit.

Don't know much about sitemaps, but they sure do look nice.

Thanks to the developers for all of their work on this!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iojam
Dark Blade,

did you try to generate sitemap manually using vbseo_sitemap/ interface?

GrendelKhan{TSU,

the correct URL is http://www.mysite.com/forums/sitemap_index.xml.gz


4yBak,
it should work correctly with vB3.6.0.

Gary King,
the correct URL is http://www.maloria.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz in your case
Nop as I don't have a clue to do that. I'm sorry but I'm kinda new to this hack... :P
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Which .htaccess should we be using?

Code:
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
- or -

Code:
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
What's the difference (aside from the obvious forum/ inclusion if that's where the forum directory is rather than ~/)
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Hi all

I am trying to install the google/yahoo sitemap generator 1.6.1 on vBulletin 3.5.4 and vBSEO 3.0.0 RC3.

When I go to run the vBSEO - Create Google/Yahoo sitemap for the first time, I get

Quote:
[homepage] [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 1, total threads: 0, pages: 1 [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 10, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 2, total threads: 6, pages: 1 [0s (+0)]
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[forumdisplay] forum_id: 24, total threads: 1, pages: 1 [0s (+0)]
[forumdisplay] forum_id: 27, total threads: 2, pages: 1 [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] showthread [0s (+0)]
[archive homepage] [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] forumdisplay archived [0s (+0)]
[SECTION START] member [0s (+0)]

Warning: gzopen(/home/willba/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 413

Warning: gzopen(/home/willba/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap.txt.gz): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 416

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 424

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 435

<repeating lines snipped>

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 435

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 438

Warning: gzwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 454

Warning: gzclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 455
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_1.xml.gz, number of urls: 136 [0s (+0)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #1 [0s (+0)]

Warning: filesize(): Stat failed for /home/willba/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_1.xml.gz (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 467

Warning: gzclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 484

Warning: fopen(/home/willba/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_index.xml.gz): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 686

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 687

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 688
[create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 1 [0s (+0)]

Warning: fopen(/home/willba/public_html/vbseo_sitemap/data/1153574601.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 545

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 546

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_sitemap_functions.php on line 547

Done
Can anyone help me please. I looked at the .htaccess file but it already had the rewrite statement that you are told to enter at the start of this thread.

Does anyone know where I have gone wrong?

Thanks

Will
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