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[Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Google Webmaster Tools (41 posts)

  1. indy1307
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Unsupported file format
    Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

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

  2. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    The sitemap works fine for me - can you post a link to your actual sitemap so we can try and work out what the problem is?

  3. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    for me not work with google!!!!! i have the same problem of indy1307

  4. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Can you post a link to your sitemap so we can see if the format is messed up?

  5. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    http://www.wimax-italia.it/sitemap.xml

    not work with google

  6. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    i've try with sitemap.xml and with sitemap.xml.gz and not work with google.

  7. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    any help?

  8. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Your sitemap looks absolutely fine - why do you think it doesn't work.

    Presumably you have a Google Webmasters account (www.google.com/webmasters) ? If so - does it report any errors under Site Configuration >> Sitemaps ?

    Feel free to email me any errors to look at [junk (at) talpa (dot) plus (dot) com]

  9. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Yes i use Google Webmaster Tool and i see the red cross on my dashboard everytime :(

  10. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    If you click on the sitemap name in Google Webmaster Tools it should tell you what the error(s) are - can you post them here - or email them to me and I'll try and work out what's going on.

  11. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

  12. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    maybe is a problem of my HOST?

  13. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Possibly - although your robots.txt file has random error messages in it which probably doesn't help?

    http://www.wimax-italia.it/robots.txt

    Maybe Google think they're not allowed to access it - certainly the sitemap looks fine to me.

  14. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    it's strange i can't find the file robot.txt in my host!!!

  15. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ok i 've try to add robot file from google webmaster, will wait result.

  16. danoconnor
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I have the same problem as many others here...I can't figure out how to manually submit my sitemap in the webmaster tools section of Google. It can't read anything.

    Any suggestions?

  17. dudewalker
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I've been using Google-Sitemap-Generator for some time now.

    The most recent updates have seemed to create issues with Google Webmaster Tools sitemap section.

    I had never experienced a RED X prior to the most recent versions of Google-Sitemap-Generator.

    In some cases I will have to resubmit the sitemap 4 or 5 times for it to stay valid.

    It's usually the same message:

    General HTTP error: 404 not found
    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

  18. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    danoconnor, dudewalker

    Can you post links to your sitemaps (As you've given them to Google).

  19. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    i have new same problem the site map work but on google webmaster tools i see the same error

    We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

    i not understand

  20. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hey - weird - one of my sites has started failing now with that same error - off to investigate ...

  21. Lee Willis
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I re-submitted and it downloaded just fine ....

  22. my-web
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    i resubmit, will wait

  23. gcarson
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I seem to get errors sometimes as well. I have the latest version of the plugin and wordpress. Sometimes when I check my google webmaster account, my urls go from a total of say 100 down to say 9. I check my /sitemap.xml file and what do you know, there's only 9 URL's. I have to manually rebuild the sitemap and then all 100 URL's show up again in the sitemap.xml file and on google webmasters. Also, like others, sometimes my sitemap.xml file is unavailable when google tries to download it? I"m guessing that could be my server though? who knows. But the first problem seems to be with the plugin?

  24. gcarson
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Forgot to mention. When the error occurs, the plugin seems to only build a sitemap with my 'pages' and no 'posts'. After I manually rebuild it, all pages and posts appear.

  25. NewbieAlert
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I started two sites at same time and installed old plugin ver 3.1.2 from my hard drive in both. I upgraded plugin on one site but forgot to upgrade other. Site with the upgrade gave error mentioned above in my webmaster account but site without upgrade showed an OK tick. Reverted back to ver 3.1.2 and it now shows a tick for xml.gz.

  26. dudewalker
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I thinks it's a bug in the plugin. If not...then a potential security breach caused by this plugin or another plugin affecting the plugin.

    A new development. I have been checking the xml and xml.gz files and when I submit them. Somehow, the content is changing. Sometimes everything expect for the landing page "disappears". Sometimes a line of text full causes a parsing error toward the top of the sitemap.

    Again, this all began with the most recent update.

  27. gcarson
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Also, is there a way to add a last modified date to not only pages but to posts? I thought I had it selected but my xml file only has a last modified date for pages.

  28. MegaToon TV
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    got the same problem recently. What i did is update (if there's an available update) the plugin and resubmit the sitemap.xml. Now its working fine. I also suggest that you must never edit some of the files in this plugin as it may cause some errors.

  29. Jamesashford
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I've got a red cross which has now appeared and i think its because the actual sitemap is appearing in the sitemap.

    Wouldn't this just send google round and round.

    So I'm using the google XML sitemap plugin.

    http://Www.rocketpowered.co.UK/sitemap

    Anyone know how to solve it.

    Cheers,

    James

  30. Rednights
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Bump .. same problem. Google says it's HTML

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