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Sitemap Error in Google - help please

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Old 01-08-2008, 09:39 PM
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Sitemap Error in Google - help please

Hi all,
I hoped that the problem would fix itself, but it still has not. In Google, webmaster tools, when looking at my sitemap information it show errors. I am not sure why or how to fix the problem. I just do not understand what is causing this issue. I am worried it is a setting I set a year ago when I installed VBSEO. For understanding purposes, I attach two images showing the warning.

Image 1 - is the listing of the sitemap pages. Only one has no warning.
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Image 2 - is page 4 expanded to show the error. I click on the link and it goes right to the post. I am not sure what I am supposed to edit since the site map is generated by the sitemap generator I downloaded from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hello,

it's recommended to disable "Include old URLs" option in Sitemap Generator settings in vB admincp once you have vBSEO running for a while and your old URLs are already replaced with new SEOed URLs in SE index.
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Old 01-08-2008, 10:26 PM
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Hello,

it's recommended to disable "Include old URLs" option in Sitemap Generator settings in vB admincp once you have vBSEO running for a while and your old URLs are already replaced with new SEOed URLs in SE index.
Thanks Oleg! You are always so quick to help people here. I just changed the setting to 'no'. For future reference & so others reading this will know: How long is long enough to have this setting set to yes? Is there a way to tell when it is time to change it? I installed in Jan and the error showed up in google in May.

Thanks again for your help and quick response!

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You might want to check Google search for the query like site:http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/ inurl:"showthread.php" - ????? Google
Once it returns no results, your old URLs are gone from SEs and you can disable that option.

Also, you should remove all sitemap*.gz files from data/ folder and re-generate sitemap since you will have less sitemap files created now.
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You might want to check Google search for the query like site:http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/ inurl:"showthread.php" - ????? Google
Once it returns no results, your old URLs are gone from SEs and you can disable that option.

Also, you should remove all sitemap*.gz files from data/ folder and re-generate sitemap since you will have less sitemap files created now.
Thanks - & will do ASAP!

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Thumbs up VBSEO is great!

I followed the instructions here and today when I checked this is what I found.

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I noticed also that it says "Most sites will not have all of their pages indexed." heh...

Thanks to VBSEO we do!

Thanks again for the help!

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