Easiest way to set up a sitemap for phpbb - for newbies (like me) Open Excel and type in the first cell the URL of a forum topic such as: http://www.mysite.com/forum/viewforum.php?f= Type 1 in the second cell (B1) Select both and drag below until the 2000th row (or 10000, if you wish). It doesn't matter how many topics are in your forum. Just choose a number of topics that will not be reached very soon. Select the two columns copy & then paste them in Notepad. Remove the unwanted spaces. Save as sitemap.txt, encoding UTF-8. Upload it on your server and then submit it to Google. That's my way of doing it.