WordPress › Support » [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Early testers wanted

Arne
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Neflite, for me your sitemap looks fine :-)

The search engines will be pinged after you publish a post.
rmvalues
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Arne

http://www.rmvalues.com/blog/sitemap.xml

i use chrome open show error, firefox is ok.

but in google webmaster tool, all sitemap error... :(
Arne
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

What does Google say?

I've seen that the output contains a BOM (Byte Order Mark) which was probably accidentally left by another plugin. The files of the sitemap plugin are all BOM free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Could you provide a list ot the other plugins you are using?
rmvalues
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Current uses active plugin
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Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Global Translator
Google XML Sitemaps
JQuery Drop Down Menu
Quick Adsense
Related Posts Slider
Revision Removal
SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF)
Smart Youtube
WP-PageNavi
WP Super Cache
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Google said

Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.
Arne
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Thanks, could you try to to disable the "Revision Removal" plugin and see if it works?
sLaNGjI
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Arne,
Dynamic Sitemap Generation, not work with all hosting services, Dreamhost for example, slow hosting or slow connections. Please insert one option to enable sitemap.xml, and all related files, write to disk.

Thanks!
joelwills
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Arne, Great beta plugin by the way, I love it! Working great on WP MS except for one:
http://blogtechguy.com/sitemap.xml
This all looks great but Google Webmaster Tools give me some errors, e.g:
http://blogtechguy.com/sitemap-pt-page-2007-07.xml
It says:
Invalid XML tag
This tag was not recognized. Please fix it and resubmit.
Parent tag: urlset
Tag: br

Some are Tag: b and some Tag: br

I do have a lot of plugins active in case that may be a problem?

Thanks,

Joel
rmvalues
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

fixed.
thanks
erikvlie
Member
Posted 10 months ago #
Hi,

I have 4 subdomains. The main site works fine, as do two others.

However, for 1 subdomain I get this error in Google Webmaster for 1 URL only (!):
```
http://photo.it-enquirer.com/sitemap-pt-page-1999-11.xml
Missing XML tag
This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
```
The URL points to a page with an apparent date in 1999; I wasn't using WordPress yet at the time ;-).

Can you help with this? Or is this totally wacky?
dadyal
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

i have 15000 posts and 75000tag and it fails
GregMulhauser
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Hi Arne,

Looks like priorities for categories are always set using $gsg->GetOption("pr_tags"), even when it should be pr_cat... See function BuildTaxonomies in sitemap-builder.php.

All the best,
Greg
SantaCruze
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Heya there,

Just downloaded and installed the new Beta of the Sitemap Plugin. All is going fine (http://handys.weltdertechnik.de/sitemap.xml) BUT...if i add the Sitemap.xml to Webmaster Tools, it looks like that:

/sitemap.xml
OK Index Jul 23, 2011 -- --

Normally it would show the Count of the URLs it has found in the sitemap.xml. I have no Error Message so is that normal?

Sincerely
Stefan
GregMulhauser
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Hi Arne,

Also, not sure why hide_empty is set to true with hierarchical then set to false in the call to get_terms (also in BuildTaxonomies in sitemap-builder.php -- but the result is that no sitemap entry will be generated for categories which happen not to have any posts directly in them but which do contain sub-categories which have posts in them.

For many folks using WP in ways that place a lot of importance on categories, it seems like it would be better either not to be making this exclusion decision for them (i.e., err on the side of including these categories rather than excluding them), or enable them to specify for themselves which way they'd like these categories to be handled.

All the best,
Greg
serenesea
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Dear Members
So right now, if we still want to use WP MU, which version of google sitemap plug in should we use that is compatible?
Any links to that plugin that we can use.
Thanks!

SereneSea.com
bigcityinformer
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Hi Arne,
is there a chance that you split up huge sitemaps in several?
Could look something like this:

hxxp://DOMAIN.com/sitemap-pt-post-2011-06-01.xml
hxxp://DOMAIN.com/sitemap-pt-post-2011-06-02.xml
hxxp://DOMAIN.com/sitemap-pt-post-2011-06-03.xml

That would probably solve the issue many of us are getting once there are more than just a few posts or tags ;)
Often it seems to time out or run out of memory or something like this and end up with a strange error like:

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: hxxp://DOMAIN.com/sitemap-pt-post-2011-07.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:

There is the Yoast version in his seo plugin that can split up the sitemaps after 1000 urls or so, maybe you wanna have a look if you don't know this already - wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Thanks so much for the plugin and the support :)
mykkal
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Hi there,

Google wants its sitemaps to be a physical file. How will that work with this new version?
sLaNGjI
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Google wants its sitemaps to be a physical file.

CONFIRM!

Arne,
Dynamic Sitemap Generation, not work with all hosting services, Dreamhost for example, slow hosting or slow connections. Please insert one option to enable sitemap.xml, and all related files, write to disk.

Thanks!

P.S. Arne, please, reply at this issue A.S.A.P.
itskev
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Why does Google Websmaster Tools show that the sitemap has errors? It has problems with the break tags as well as the bold tags... It tells me to fix these and resubmit. Can't I just have an xml file that isn't formatted in HTML?
mykkal
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

I totally agree. An xml sitemap makes the most sense. Plus it doesn't matter the format if search engines will not accept them.

Why does Google Websmaster Tools show that the sitemap has errors? It has problems with the break tags as well as the bold tags... It tells me to fix these and resubmit. Can't I just have an xml file that isn't formatted in HTML?
Ray Doniel
Member
Posted 10 months ago #

Hi,
not working when using Membership plugin.
Message: (please check http://slexy.org/view/s2ay6Kv1SK)

Any idea how to solve this

Thanks