After following most instructions here a few URLs from my website appeared on page 1-5 on google when searching for some important niche keywords; these were URLs generated by the sitemap generator.

However, when I checked google sitemap(webmaster) yesterday, it said only 6 out of around 600 URLS in my sitemap was indexed (in fact there are about 300 urls indexed but they were not generated by the sitemap generator). I am just wondering if I do something wrong with sitemap generator setting or google takes a long time to index all submitted URLs.

Also yesterday, I changed Forum URL Global Format from default to no hierchical and folder type of link (Briansol's guide-thank you). This will definitely have negative impact in the short run but I d better change it now when the website is still in infant. I was thinking about 301 Redirect but not sure whether I should do so and how.

Vbseo and the guides here are amazing by the way, 2 months with basicly 0-3 visitors from search engine to 100 visitors a day just after around < 1 week of optimising vbseo and with 6 urls indexed! (The other urls not from sitemap generators are basicly junks with short tags, member profiles etc... I am removing them)