Title: -Tag missing in Google-Webmaster-Tools
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# -Tag missing in Google-Webmaster-Tools

 *  [4d61726b7573](https://wordpress.org/support/users/4d61726b7573/)
 * (@4d61726b7573)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-missing-in-google-webmaster-tools/)
 * Hi,
    I installed your plugin and activated the Google-News extension along with
   the regular configuration.
 * Therefore I included the /sitemapindex.xml to the Google-Webmaster-Tools sitemap
   page. Now /post_google_news.xml works fine without any errors or warnings.
 * But for /page.xml, /post.xml, /taxonomy_category.xml and /taxonomy_post_tag.xml
   I get errors for every entry saying “<publication>-Tag missing …” and “<publication
   >-Tag … wrong genre …”.
 * So this would absolutely makes sense from the point of view that all sitemaps
   but /post_google_news.xml have no <publication>-tag included. But Google should
   use /post_google_news.xml as Google-News source only.
 * Any idea why Google-Webmaster tools expect the <publication> tag for all other
   sitemaps listed above and complains about it?
 * Thanks you
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Khang Minh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oddoneout/)
 * (@oddoneout)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-missing-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-7090937)
 * Hello,
 * Can you post a screenshot of the error you’re seeing?
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [4d61726b7573](https://wordpress.org/support/users/4d61726b7573/)
 * (@4d61726b7573)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-missing-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-7091067)
 *     ```
       Invalid publication label
   
       The publication label that you selected when submitting this Sitemap does not correspond to a known publication in the Google News database. To find the current publication name and language, please check your articles as they appear in Google News. Please include this publication information in your Sitemap by updating to the new format, which involves attaching a <publication> tag and other relevant tags to each url in your Sitemap.
       ```
   
 * and
 *     ```
       Missing <publication> tag
   
       Each url in a News Sitemap must have a <publication> tag.
       ```
   
 * only the Google News sitemap works correct, all other sitemaps produce the errors
   above.
 * Here are the Screenshots
 * [Erros overview](http://wp12227711.server-he.de/errors.png)
    [Errors detail](http://wp12227711.server-he.de/erorr_detail.png)
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Khang Minh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oddoneout/)
 * (@oddoneout)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-missing-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-7091078)
 * It’s weird that Google is considering `post.xml`, `page.xml` and some others 
   as news sitemaps.
 * Can I have the link to your post.xml sitemap?
 * Also, can you try removing those sitemaps with errors and resubmit them?
 *  [fgsantosw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fgsantosw/)
 * (@fgsantosw)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-missing-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-7091152)
 * Same here, my post sitemap is ok when i test, but when i send to Search Console
   i get these messages:
 * “The publication label that you selected when submitting this Sitemap does not
   correspond to a known publication in the Google News database. To find the current
   publication name and language, please check your articles as they appear in Google
   News. Please include this publication information in your Sitemap by updating
   to the new format, which involves attaching a <publication> tag and other relevant
   tags to each url in your Sitemap.”
 * “Each url in a News Sitemap must have a <publication> tag.”
 * “At least one URL in your Sitemap is on a host that is not in the Google News
   database. Google News can only accept Sitemaps from hosts that we crawl. If your
   site is crawled by Google News, please check that the URL of your Sitemap agrees
   with the URLs of your articles as they appear on Google News, including any leading“
   www”.”
 *  Plugin Author [Khang Minh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oddoneout/)
 * (@oddoneout)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-missing-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-7091153)
 * That’s weird, could it be that you’re submitting your post.xml sitemap to Google
   News? Can you post a screenshot of the error you’re seeing?

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