262 Crawl errors

Hello, I had vbseo installed last week.

I have checked google webmaster tools and my crawl stats has 262 errors. They are all 404 not found errors.

I have checked and it has the URL's wrong It has them as

http://www.chattaboxforums.com/forums/advice/

But they should be

http://www.chattaboxforums.com/advice/

why is it having the word "forums" in all the urls?? when it's not correct

Did you recently move your forums to root?

I looked at your sitemap and the /advice threads look ok. It's good that they are 404'ing, as they do not exist. Expect to see them drop out of the webmaster tools area in a couple weeks.

Nope my forum has always been ChattaBoxForums

The date of the errors has been since Vbseo was installed tho?

I'm not sure how they got in there...

Is the date under the "last found on" column the date of vbseo (give or take a few days)? if so, that means SINCE you installed vbseo, it corrected the problem.

The detected date is August 8th
Vbseo installed August 5th

Yeah, that sounds about right then. You installed vbseo, it fixed the problem, google took a few days and started to report the page as a 404.

You're set up correctly now. Whatever it was that was broken or mis-linked doesn't appear to be so any more.

It has increased to 861 now!

What's going on?? thats not normal surley?
Why is it adding /forum to the url???

Ay idea?

Make sure you didn't define any url to vBSEO Sitemap Generator settings Sitemap Files URL

you mean this part of the options?

Sitemap Files URL

Thats blank

I checked your sitemap files and there is nothing defined as forums/threadname . Your vBSEO installation is working correct also.

Thanks so best to ignor it then?

If i were you i would create a forum folder within your root and place the following .htaccess to your forum folder. This will redirect any request to correct url

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.chattaboxforums.com/$1 [L,R=301]

won't that cause duplication tho?

No , with that .htaccess every request made for domain.com/forum/forum-section/thread1.html will be redirected to domain.com/forum-section/thread1.html