Title: adding sitemap to google
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# adding sitemap to google

 *  [canonpower](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canonpower/)
 * (@canonpower)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/)
 * I installed sitemaps plugin (latest but not beta) for wordpress (latest version).
   i added [http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml)
   in google sitemaps and it showed that url not accesable.
 * i changed the option to enable google yahoo technorati to be able to access my
   site. then i checked if there is sitemaps.xml and sitemaps.xml.gz (both in utf8
   format) in the top directory of my site. everything is there. but still google
   says url not acesable.
 * what do i do now?

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 *  [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/)
 * (@drmike)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517711)
 * Which sitemap plugin? That’s a half dozen. Also please remember that versions
   are numbers, not ‘latest’ for a reason. For example latest version of Firefox
   is the 3-alpha.
 * Check to see if the files generated are readable worldride. Should be set to 
   644 or 666.
 * See [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions) for more details.
 * Hope this helps,
    -drmike
 *  Thread Starter [canonpower](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canonpower/)
 * (@canonpower)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517784)
 * my files show 644. but google says
 * URL restricted by robots.txt
    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.
 * when i try to add my sitemap ie.,
 * [http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml)
 * any solutions?
 *  Thread Starter [canonpower](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canonpower/)
 * (@canonpower)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517786)
 * the sitemaps plugin is
 * [http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final](http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final)
 * version number 2.7.1
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517794)
 * _URL restricted by robots.txt_
 * What’s in your robots.txt file?
 *  Thread Starter [canonpower](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canonpower/)
 * (@canonpower)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517800)
 * when i visited [http://www.mysite.com/robots.txt](http://www.mysite.com/robots.txt)
   i saw this
 * User-agent: * Disallow:
 * is it ok?
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517802)
 * No, that’s not okay. That will prevent Google or any other search engine from
   indexing your site.
 * Remove the file entirely if you want to be listed on Google and other search 
   engines.
 *  Thread Starter [canonpower](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canonpower/)
 * (@canonpower)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517819)
 * how to remove the file. where does the file reside. i opened ftp and could not
   find a file names robots.txt.
 * what should i do now?
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517842)
 * Talk to your host. Only they can help you resolve that situation.
 *  Thread Starter [canonpower](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canonpower/)
 * (@canonpower)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-sitemap-to-google/#post-517868)
 * i uninstalled the google sitemaps plugin and installed the beta version of the
   same google sitemaps plugin and it worked. thanks for your replies.

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## Tags

 * [sitemaps](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sitemaps/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)
 * [yahoo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/yahoo/)

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