Need help with sitemap generator

I already have a Google Sitemap for both my main site and my forums, do i need to install the Sitemap Generator 1.7 found here in the downloads section?

If so, can someone please clarify what these are and how to do them?

Code:

Open your 'vbroot/.htaccess' file

This is the htaccess found in the forum root, correct?

Code:

Important: Enter your Direct Script Run Code (this is also your password for your automated reports)

i have no idea what this is or what it means.


any help would be appreciated!!!!


Second question, what do i need to do to start bringing in Yahoo and MSN, I'm doing really well on google, and the Yahoo Slurp spiders are always all over my site, but I have ZERO referrals from either Yahoo or MSN

Yes, that is the .htaccess found in your forum root.

The direct script run code is your password to get to your reports. Just put what you want for you password there. Then, you will be able to access reports via this link:
yourdomain/vbseo_sitemap/

Once you enter that URL in, it will ask for a password. Whatever you entered as your Direct Script run Code is what you enter there. Depending on how you set your personal settings, you can also generate sitemaps from that URL, although there is no real need to because they are done every 24 hours via your forum.

okay....one more silly question. I already have a sitemap through my root folder, which covers my main page and forums....should I delete that and simply use this?

thanks again for your time and help

Since vBSEO Sitemap Generator includes only forum URLs in sitemap, you can leave only non-forum pages in your old (root folder) sitemap and submit both of them to google.

Better would be to run vBSEO sitemap from your site root and add the root url to the extraurls.txt.

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Better would be to run vBSEO sitemap from your site root and add the root url to the extraurls.txt.

I agree. I never did this in the past for my big site and I think google ultimately devalued the pages I wasn't submitting through the sitemap. It is a little extra work to enter in the URL's, but the results have been much better.

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Better would be to run vBSEO sitemap from your site root and add the root url to the extraurls.txt.

I'm just learning VBSEO (not even sure I have everything configured correctly), and I want to do as you suggest, but have no idea how to set this up

hello?
So how would I run this from my site root instead of the forum root?

Here you go: Sitemap in www root