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  • I recently upgraded to 2.5, I also have a the google sitemap plug in.

    When I log into my google account, I see a warning sign under the “status” section of google sitemaps and get the following messsage:

    “URLs not followed
    When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted.
    HTTP Error:
    URL:
    URL:
    URL:
    URL:
    URL:
    Found: 302 (Moved temporarily)”

    This has to be affecting my google ranking. I was stuck on page 4, but am now down to page 5.

    What’s wrong with my site?

    Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter ranessirhc

    (@ranessirhc)

    Am I always asking the wrong way or something?

    Why do I only get responses to questions I ask 10-15% of the time?

    I need to fix this and would really appreciate some help.

    @ranessirhc

    Am I always asking the wrong way or something?

    Well, yeah, you sorta are.

    I mean, you’re having a plugin problem, not a site problem. The issue isn’t WordPress 2.5, it’s how you’ve got your plugin configured, or not configured in this case it seems.

    This is an issue you’re having with Google, not so much WordPress. I would suggest contacting the Plugin Author, Arne Brachhold, he’s a nice guy and ask him what you’re doing wrong.

    Thread Starter ranessirhc

    (@ranessirhc)

    Thank you for your response.

    I was really hoping someone would be able to share an answer here in these forums. I did a search and only found others with the same problem, but no explanation of how to fix mine. Perhaps this should have gone in the plugins and hacks forum.

    “Support:

    If you have comments/problems/suggestions, see something in the code which is not compliant to the WordPress Plugin Codex, or just want to say “Yeha! It works!”, feel free to create a post at the WordPress support forum and tag it with “sitemap”. It’s likely that you’ll get an answer for your problem faster there than by writing me an email, because I get a lot of support emails and need some time to read and answer them all. If you think you’ve found a bug, please open a new ticket here.”

    @ranessirhc

    I do understand your frustration, but I think taking a step back is better than venting in the forums. This sort of thing often happens in the open-source software community – people aren’t being paid to answer support questions, so you’re sometimes at the mercy of whomever happens to be around — and trying to assign blame never works, but being nice to people who might be able to help you will.

    I think the first step is to understand the error. Try this.

    I don’t know what you’re doing with your site, but Google is telling you what the problem is:

    When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target).

    Did you move your sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz files when you upgraded? Did you try reinstalling the plugin? Did you try creating new files and rebuilding your sitemap again?

    Or did you consider that this could be a Google problem? They do happen you know.

    thelaxygeisha:

    I do understand your approach, but I think that taking a step back and not lecturing people on their communication skills but rather answering his technical question will make a better use of your time. and ours.

    I am having this very same problem and getting a headache trying to figure it out. I am using the Tarski theme. My host is Steadfast and I used their “easy app” installer.

    If I can’t be crawled by search engines, well we all know how bad that is. I am lost and either can’t find answers or just don’t understand them when they appear before me.

    I’m having same problem.

    I was having a similar flag on Google but it was my fault. I changed the permalinks to the correct url and got no more errors.

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