sitemap is listing private forums

[jwbond]

The sitemap generator is listing links to posts made in private password protected forums, which in turn cause dns errors for Google.


Is there any fix for this?

[Keith Cohen]

It should only list threads that are in forums that are accessible by guests.

Did you manually run the Scheduled Task from AdminCP? If so, that runs the process under your Admin account, which would cause those forums to be listed.

If you want to run it manually, make sure you only run it from the vBSEO Sitemap Menu, or let the task run on its own under the scheduler.

[jwbond]

Makes sense.

I ran it manually after initially installing. Since the sitemap has been recreated by the system several times, it should no longer list these pages and Google should no longer be looking for the pages. Correct?

[Keith Cohen]

To make sure, you can remove all the sitemap files from your vbseo_sitemap/data directory then run the process again from the vBSEO Sitemap menu.