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1. Alkorr
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi, I just installed 3.1.4 and my sitemap.xml looks like a RSS feed, is that ok? Because usually sitemap.xml shows a table on top of the page with: 'This is a XML Sitemap which is supposed to be processed by search engines like Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.......'

   But now, all I get is a RSS feed: '- <!-- sitemap-generator-url="http://www.arnebrachhold.de" sitemap-generator-version="3.1.4"
   -->'

   Is there a problem? If yes, what is it?

   Thanks for your help!

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   unless you provide a link it's doubtful anyone can help you.

3. Alkorr
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hi whooami, I can't provide access to the RSS Feed because it's IP filtered. But here how my 'RSS Feed-like Sitemap' looks like:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
   - <!-- generator="wordpress/" -->
   - <!-- sitemap-generator-url="http://www.arnebrachhold.de" sitemap-generator-version="3.1.4" -->
   - <!-- generated-on="July 14, 2009 11:29 pm" -->
   - <urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   - <url>
   <loc>http://www.mywebsite.com/</loc>
   <lastmod>2009-07-14T21:22:40+00:00</lastmod>
   <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
   <priority>1.0</priority>
   </url>
   ... And so on ...

   Why does my sitemap.xml looks like a RSS Feed instead of showing a list of links?

   Hope that helps find out... Thanks!

4. Alkorr
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Anyone can help me out with this issue? I'm lost, I didn't find any explaination about this RSS Feed look.

   Plus I have no idea if Google can accept it.

   Help is more than welcome!

5. Alkorr
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   In case I wasn't clear enough in my explainations:

   This is what I call an HTML sitemap:
   http://www.arnebrachhold.de/sitemap.xml

   And my sitemap looks like any RSS Feed:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
   - <!-- generator="wordpress/" -->
   - <!-- sitemap-generator-url="http://www.arnebrachhold.de" sitemap-generator-version="3.1.4" -->
   - <!-- generated-on="July 14, 2009 11:29 pm" -->
   - <urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   - <url>
   <loc>http://www.mywebsite.com/</loc>
   <lastmod>2009-07-14T21:22:40+00:00</lastmod>
   <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
   <priority>1.0</priority>
   </url>
   ... And so on ...

   Hope that will someone find my problem... I'm being desperate right now...

6. Alkorr
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I'm starting to think it's a bug from the plugin.

   If it happened to someone else, please let me know.

   It just happened to a friend of mine, he's got the RSS Feed-like sitemap too...

7. rsciw
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Using the plugin version 3.1.4 on some Wordpress installations, all version 2.8.3, without a prob. displays correctly, like the example you linked to, which is an XML sitemap, not HTML as you call it above ;)

8. Alkorr
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi rsciw, I call the example taken from my own website a RSS Feed-like. The HTML example is taken from the author's plugin website.

   So which one is normal? The RSS Feed-like one (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>) or the HTML one (using table, link, color)?

   Thanks!

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