Verifying your vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is Installed Correctly

I have installed vBSEO Sitemap Generator 2.6 on my forum and i have entered to: http://www.maemoadictos.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz but dont work :S

Hello Miguel,

What are your rewrite rules in your .htaccess file?

Hi: Michael Biddle
I have this on .htaccess

Code:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

Hello,

What if you remove the bottom line, does it work?

No: gives this error:
Sitemap file not found

Maeby is needed to generate it manually?

Is your sitemap physically in your vbseo_sitemap/data folder?

No, there is no .xml file over there, only index.php and .htaccess how can i generate it manually?

It should run nightly. You can login to the vbseo_sitemap and click the manually generate link.

I dont know the password to enter over that panel, how can i change it?

Originally Posted by Miguel86

I dont know the password to enter over that panel, how can i change it?

You can change the password in your adminCP, login and under the vBSEO menu there is vBSEO sitemap settings you can change the password and a few other settings here.

Ceri

Ok thanks i have entered. Only 1 question, if i have more than 50000 url which is the urls that i need to send to google? because per file can only be maximun 50000 url so need to be on different urls sitemap.

Hi Miguel,

vBSEO will split after as many URL's you set and will create a sitemap_index which is all you will need to link to in Google Webmaster tools it then links to the rest of the sitemaps for you.

Ceri

A couple of days ago I noticed a site map error in Google Webmaster Tools (picture attached bellow).

The site map always worked fine, and I haven't don't any changes in the past week. I did change my host last month, but I think I would have noticed this error earlier if it had been caused by the move to the new host.

Could anyone please look at my site map and tell me if it looks OK, or what could I try to correct it.

Code:

http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Your sitemap file is working as expected

Mert, thanks. But I still wonder why Google Webmaster Tools reports the error.

I observed that my site map, when opened in a web browser, is not formatted in a tree structure like I see it in other websites. Is this normal:

Code:

http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz

Could this be the issue, or this shouldn't matter?