[Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Sitemap looking like RSS Feed

Alkorr
(@alkorr)

14 years, 9 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!

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whooami
(@whooami)

14 years, 9 months ago

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

Thread Starter Alkorr
(@alkorr)

14 years, 9 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!

Thread Starter Alkorr
(@alkorr)

14 years, 8 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!

Thread Starter Alkorr
(@alkorr)

14 years, 8 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…

Thread Starter Alkorr
(@alkorr)

14 years, 8 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…

rsciw
(@rsciw)

14 years, 8 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 😉

Thread Starter Alkorr
(@alkorr)

14 years, 8 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!

canaan_moore
(@canaan_moore)

14 years, 2 months ago

Hi there, I have finished my RSS feed, tested it and all works perfectly, but when I remove an article from my feed it still showed in the reader. How do i get the reader to see the article is no longer part of the feed.
http://www.rsschannelwriter.com/
A new version of RSS Channel Writer released by Emergency Soft. This comprehensive, yet easy-to-use software promises to be the most professional in its field.

arboundy
(@arboundy)

14 years ago

Dont know if this is relavent to the original poster, but I too was having a problem with the xsl; http://www.arboundy.com/2010/04/wordpress-2.9-sitemap-generator-failing-workaround/