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1. silverpurple
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I am getting an error in Webmaster Tools for my google news sitemap. I have been using the google-news-sitemap-generator for awhile now with no problems.

   The error I get is:

   Unsupported Sitemap format
   Your Sitemap uses a News format that is no longer supported for newly-submitted sitemaps. Please update to the new format, which involves attaching a <publication> tag and other relevant tags to each url in your Sitemap.

   I first got the error about a day ago and then webmaster tools downloaded the sitemap again and was happy. But then I got the error again today. So is there a new sitemap schema out, and if so will the plugin be updated soon? Or is this another problem?

   Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-news-sitemap-generator/

2. soveratonews
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Silverpurple,
   i've just found new google news sitemap plugin that work with the new format

   ciao

3. chris.jinks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Guys,

   Sorry for the delay, I have been working on the update and testing it. The latest Google guidelines are not great and took a while for Google Webmaster tools to accept the new format.

   Should all be fixed and conforming to the new format now though, let me know how you get on and if you have any further issues.

   Thank you for the couple of people contributed to this plugin, any further donations would be very much appreciated and help with any future updates.

   Chris.

4. dailylatestnews
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Chris,

   I am facing same problem as silverpurple-
   "Unsupported Sitemap format
   Your Sitemap uses a News format that is no longer supported for newly-submitted sitemaps. Please update to the new format, which involves attaching a <publication> tag and other relevant tags to each url in your Sitemap."

   I have upgraded and using latest version of google news sitemap plugin.

   Kindly help and resolve the issue ASAP

   Thanks & Regards

5. dailylatestnews
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Here is Some Sample of my current site map that i am using on my site -

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
   xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
   <url>
   <loc>http://www.dailylatestresults.com/2009/11/14/maharashtra-state-board-msbshse-mahresult-hsc-10th-ssc12th-results-2009-0766</loc>
   <news:news>
   <news:publication_date>2009-11-14T08:01:49Z</news:publication_date>
   <news:keywords>Maharashtra, hsc results oct 2009, hsc october 2009, hsc results october 2009, hsc results 2009 maharashtra, hsc results, h.s.c result, hsc results 2009, msbshse, maharashtra board, mahresult, hsc board</news:keywords>
   </news:news>

   </url>
   <url>
   <loc>http://www.dailylatestresults.com/2009/11/13/results-fae-2009-ireland-0762</loc>
   <news:news>
   <news:publication_date>2009-11-13T13:41:02Z</news:publication_date>
   <news:keywords>World, Results, fae results</news:keywords>
   </news:news>

   </url>
   </urlset>
   <!-- Last build time: November 14, 2009, 3:01 am-->

   I also checked google for new sitemap tags here - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74288
   May be it will help you.

   This is Correct Format provided by google

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
   xmlns:n="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
   <url>
   <loc>http://www.example.org/business/article55.html</loc>
   <n:news>
   <n:publication>
   <n:name>The Example Times</n:name>
   <n:language>en</n:language>
   </n:publication>
   <n:access>subscription</n:access>
   <n:genres>pressrelease, blog</n:genres>
   <n:publication_date>2008-12-23</n:publication_date>
   <n:title>Companies A, B in Merger Talks</n:title>
   <n:keywords>business, merger, acquisition, A, B</n:keywords>
   <n:stock_tickers>NASDAQ:A, NASDAQ:B</n:stock_tickers>
   </n:news>
   </url>
   </urlset>

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