Title: problem with my sitemaps
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# problem with my sitemaps

 *  Resolved [fifthhouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fifthhouse/)
 * (@fifthhouse)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-my-sitemaps/)
 * Hi everyone. I recently installed [Google XML Sitemaps](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)
   plugin, and I followed the installation instructions, activated the plugin, and
   everything seemed to be fine and a successful situation.
 * But then today I checked my google webmaster tools, and it says it found an error
   in my sitemap:
 * 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.
    HTTP Error: 404 Problem detected on: Oct 13, 2009
 * There doesn’t seem to be support on the plugin home page so I thought I’d check
   here. Any suggestions?

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [doc4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doc4/)
 * (@doc4)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-my-sitemaps/#post-1243711)
 * fifthhouse,
 * Both the sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz files should be in the root directory(
   the same directory as wp-content folder ) double check this and the link provided
   to Google to the sitemap. Could simply be a typo.
 *  Thread Starter [fifthhouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fifthhouse/)
 * (@fifthhouse)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-my-sitemaps/#post-1243810)
 * Thanks doc4. I checked those and it seems fine. But maybe I didn’t understand
   the plugin functions. I thought that the plugin automatically submitted my sitemap
   to google but now I am thinking I need to do that myself through my webmaster
   tools. Do you know if that is the case?
 *  [doc4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doc4/)
 * (@doc4)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-my-sitemaps/#post-1243921)
 * fifthhouse,
 * I recommend submitting the sitemap to Google to get things started. Google, Yahoo,
   Bing, Ask.com etc will simply need to know where the files are located before
   the plugin can kick in.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘problem with my sitemaps’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [doc4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doc4/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-my-sitemaps/#post-1243921)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics