Disabling vBulletin Archive?

Hi.

How can I disable vB Archive? There is no need for it after installing vBSEO right?

How do I change traffic/spiders from going to archive/ to vBSEO sitemap feature?

vbseo sitemap is NOT a replacement for the vB archive. They are two totally different things. the xml sitemap is for spiders, not humans.

That said, turning off the archive is a good idea.
You can turn it off within the vb general options panel in the vb acp.

If you don't have significant traffic going to the archive, i would just turn it off and not even direct traffic.
set up a custom 404 page to handel errors (see member articles forum for a how-to).

Originally Posted by briansol

vbseo sitemap is NOT a replacement for the vB archive. They are two totally different things. the xml sitemap is for spiders, not humans.

That said, turning off the archive is a good idea.
You can turn it off within the vb general options panel in the vb acp.

If you don't have significant traffic going to the archive, i would just turn it off and not even direct traffic.
set up a custom 404 page to handel errors (see member articles forum for a how-to).

Doesn't vBSEO replace or do something to vBulletin's built-in archive system?
For one thing, it changed my forum's directory /archive/ to /sitemap/..

It is safe to have correct? I just don't want any duplicate content problems etc.

the entire archive IS duplicate content. It was made because vB default isn't very SEO friendly. With vbseo, the archive is basically useless.

Originally Posted by briansol

the entire archive IS duplicate content. It was made because vB default isn't very SEO friendly. With vbseo, the archive is basically useless.

I think that perhaps I am wording it wrong. I am referring to vBSEO's sitemap feature. Not Google Sitemap but user sitemap...ie, links to threads etc...not actually an archive containing post like default vBulletin.