Bug Soft 404 pages generated from Sitemap generation.

[RedWS600]

The sitemaps generation is mainly working. Noticed a few issues in GWT, it appears URLs are in going into the sitemaps that don't exist.

Priority URL Response Code Detected Referred from

1 tags/article-page4.html 11/10/14 dbseo_sitemap_tags_12.xml.gz

2 tags/page-page11.html 11/10/14 not found in todays sitemap, so thats good.

3 tags/vehicle-page10.html 11/10/14 dbseo_sitemap_tags_12.xml.gz

4 tags/people-page4.html 11/7/14 dbseo_sitemap_tags_12.xml.gz

There is about 46 of these. So looking into it further.
Solent Renegades, does indeed return page not found. This is refered to in Sitemap http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/dbseositemap.php?fn=dbseo_sitemap_tags_12.xml.gz opening that sitemap file it does have that entry listed along with a few of the others.

So why is DBSEO generating pages in the site map for pages that don't exist. Do I have something configured wrong? I haven't noticed this until today, only 46 flagged errors our of 10k pages, do its nothing major, just want to clean things up in GWT as there has been a great drop in pages being indexed and visitors to the site. Although just noticed there are 439 errors under 'Not Found' in GWT. Looks to be a simular issue. eg.
Solent Renegades is in http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz but website is returning

vBulletin Message
Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

for that page.

Nothing has recently changed on the forum, certainly nothing in DBSEO apart from upgrading the version, no settings have been touched.

 

[RedWS600]

Just checked another link
Solent Renegades
comes from http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/vbseo_sitemap/data/sitemap_forum_1.xml.gz
looks like it should have been
Article: Can-Am Spooktacular

Perhaps the sitemap generation is assuming that forum threads are in /forum/ and not following the rewrite rules in DBSEO, however if that was the case then many more URL's would have issues. I'm not sure, just trying to provide all the info I can, as it would be nice to get on top of this.

 

[Fillip H.]

This is because you are still submitting sitemaps from the vBSEO Sitemap Generator. Please disable that modification and utilise only the DBSEO sitemap generator

 

[RedWS600]

Darn it, well spotted. I didn't even notice that. I dont even have VBSEO installed(used to be present), it must be using old XML files.
Change the Google Sitemap to /dbseositemap.php and will see how that goes.

Thanks for the fast accurate response.