dynamically generate sitemap

Resolved mium
(@mium)

11 years, 9 months ago

I had the ‘Dynamically Generate Sitemap’ box checked along with notify Google and Bing. Both Bing and Google webmaster tools said no sitemap was submitted. Should I remove the ‘dynamically generate’ option to generate a static map? (If so, do I submit all the map versions that I find in my root that have the sitemap prefix?) And, if I create and submit a static file, should I revert to the dynamic option after submitting?

Any information that will help me understand this will be greatly appreciated!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

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Plugin Support Steve M
(@wpsmort)

11 years, 9 months ago

Hi mium,

You still have to manually submit your sitemap to both Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Webmaster Tools if you want them to appear in Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Webmaster Tools. Leave your settings in All in One SEO Pack as they are, they are fine, just log into both Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Webmaster Tools and manually submit your XML sitemap to them.

Thread Starter mium
(@mium)

11 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for your response.

Should I submit any and all sitemaps found in the root directory?

Plugin Support Steve M
(@wpsmort)

11 years, 9 months ago

Hi mium,

If you’re using All in One SEO Pack then you should only have one sitemap which should be sitemap.xml. What’s the URL of your site?

Thread Starter mium
(@mium)

11 years, 9 months ago

First let me thank you for your interest and help!

The site is http://www.itsaccomplished.com

I just looked at Webmaster tools again and see that I get a different answer depending on whether I use www or not:

itsaccomplished.com – no sitemap
http://www.its.accomplished – 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.
General HTTP error: 404 not found HTTP Error: 404)

If I go to the dashboard/All in One SEO/XML Sitemap and click on ‘View Your Sitemap’ I get this:

XML Sitemap
This sitemap contains 5 URLs
http://itsaccomplished.com/sitemap_addl.xml.gz
http://itsaccomplished.com/sitemap_page.xml.gz
http://itsaccomplished.com/sitemap_attachment.xml.gz
http://itsaccomplished.com/sitemap_testimonials.xml.gz
http://itsaccomplished.com/sitemap_ml-slider.xml.gz

When I view my files in cPanel, I cannot find any sitemap at all so I guess at some point I must have messed something up.

Plugin Support Steve M
(@wpsmort)

11 years, 9 months ago

Hi mium,

You need to disable the Sitemap Indexes option, you don’t need it – http://semperplugins.com/documentation/xml-sitemaps-module/#enablesitemapindexes

Thread Starter mium
(@mium)

11 years, 9 months ago

Thanks. I’ve got it all worked out. You’ve been a great help!

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