Verifying your vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is Installed Correctly

Hello,

I’m having problems generating the sitemap using vbseo sitemap 3.0 PL1. It only generated one link. I have a private forum in which guests need to register to view the full site, but the forumdisplay is open to public. I’m able to see some indexes when I did a search using Google. So why won’t the sitemap generated?

I’m running vBulletin 4.1.3

Here is how I setup the .htaccess:

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

RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)-(.*)? showthread.php?t=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+)-(.*)? member.php?u=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)-(.*)? forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [QSA,L]

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.bettingtalk.com

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

This is my sitemap http://www.bettingtalk.com/sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz. It only shows the site URL.

Thanks and regards.

Your .htaccess file is wrong for a board that uses vBSEO. Additionally if your content is hidden from guests they will not be included to sitemap files.

Blocking your site from guests basically makes the use of our product borderline useless on your site. If you want search traffic, it needs to be open to public searchers.

Consult the readme.html file in the download package and make sure you are using the vbseo htaccess file. The vb htaccess is REPLACED by the vbseo one when using vbseo.

how can i do site map ? any1 help me plz.

Originally Posted by john122

I like it very much............

thanks a lot for replying me

i have installed vBSEO Search Engine XML Sitemap v3.0

but all page can not be found

http://vb.7bibi.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

http://vb.7bibi.com/sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz

http://vb.7bibi.com/sitemap_tags_1.xml.gz

any idea please ??

Hello,

Could you please try to run manually the script that creates your sitemaps to see if it throws any errors?

how can i do that ?

You need to login to vBSEO Sitemap Generator Control Panel via domain.com/vbseo_sitemap/ interferance

its the same thing and nothing change

VBSEO is installed correctly. And I installed the Sitemap Generator 3.0.

I logged into the Sitemap Gen 3.0 control panel and generated a map and it registered it so it seems fine.

I have the Archive link showing up at the bottom of the forum but it goes to archive/index.php, which I do not believe is where the vbseo sitemap is located.

What is the custom address should that Archive link direct to?

The forum is in the root directory. Thank you!

Hello,

You can find it at: yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

At the top right corner of your sitemap control panel you'll find a link to your sitemaps index.

Thanks, that must be an invisible file because I don't see it in ftp but it actually goes somewhere when I use that link.

On this page: http://www.energyscienceforum.com/cr...atteries/2.htm when I click the Archive link, it now goes here: http://www.energyscienceforum.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz that is a list of different archived sitemaps.

Is that optimum for the search engines?

On vbseo.com, your own sitemap is: http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap/ and is more of an outline layout. Is that a better way to have it and if so, how do I make mine like that or should I just leave mine how it is now?

The vBulletin Archive is an entire different feature, and it has nothing to do with the vBSEO Sitemap. I'm not sure how the link in your footer ended up pointing to your sitemap index file, perhaps a template edit, or a custom parameter set in your vBSEO Control Panel?

Our sitemap is located here: http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz and what you actually see when accessing vbseo.com/sitemap/ is the vBulletin Archive, but with a different rewritten URL.

You should keep in mind that both features are not the same.

Hello guys,

I have submitted my xml to google, sites are as follows

MMO-Trading - MMO Trading Feed
http://www.mmo-trading.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Is it supposed to show the index's there? I thought they were supposed to be downloadable?