Thread Starter
sally
(@sallyruchman)
Hello,
what is the String what you copied? Can you please explain, how this will fix the HTML Sitemap error?
Thx
Sally
Hey Sally,
I am with you that doesn’t look like much of a fix… looks more like he dumped in the wrong post… did you find a solution.. I have the same problem..
In my case its just calling out 4 as html not the other 5..
I am going to go back and rebuild a few more times.. the dumb thing is the its passing the sitemap test but not when you go live.. makes no sense that the test cannot catch it.. what good is a test like that?
A sitemap is actually an XML file, not HTML. Check for older plugins that might conflict. New installs may show this message on the Yoast SEO admin, for example:
The following plugins might cause (xml sitemaps) issues with Yoast WordPress SEO: Google XML Sitemaps
With that said, keep in mind that your XML sitemap is not the file that Google is looking for during site verification. Instead, Google is looking for an HTML file that you upload to the root directory of your WP install before attempting to verify the site in Webmaster Tools. This can be done with FTP or your web host’s cPanel file manager, if available; it can’t be done as a WP upload, since the file will land in your content directory.
Alternatively, you can add a meta tag to the head of your pages or child theme page templates as shown above, but the meta tag must be added to ALL of your pages. Obviously, Alexa isn’t the right call here; the tag itself should look more like this:
meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”Vofasfasd3i3e_wATasfdsSDb0uFqvNVhLk7ZVY”
I think the HTML upload is the cleanest method, but you can handle the meta tag easily enough by using another plugin, All in One Webmaster. Once installed and activated, go to AIO Webmaster / Webmaster Options to enter your Google ID (not the full tag).
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179?hl=en
I think some folks may be getting the impression that this is a verificatoin problem..when its a matter of google telling the person trying to upload a file to the google sitemap that it looks like an html page to google.. when in fact its a valid xml file.. Its a well known problem at Yoast and here is their suggestion for fix…
http://kb.yoast.com/article/35-why-is-google-saying-my-xml-video-sitemap-is-an-html-file
Thread Starter
sally
(@sallyruchman)
Hi,
as i wrote in my opening post, i already created the Agent User Group, what was provided by yoast team, but the problem when resubmitting the sitemap to GWT still appear, also after resubmitting 10 times…
I used before the Plugin Google XML Sitemaps, and there the submitting to Google works fine, with no errors. But i don’t want to have 2 plugins installed for this, and while integrated with Yoast seo, i was thinking, this will work without any problem.
Any other Ideas how to fix this ???
Thx
Sally
Thanks for link, tommytx, I think you nailed it on the head.
Although billed as a verification problem with Webmaster Tools, the gist of this support ticket describes a sitemap submission problem in Yoast SEO. Tommytx’s link is helpful. Here’s another:
http://askwpgirl.com/submitting-wordpress-site-google-webmaster-tools/
