Arne

Hi All,

Please relax. The Statistics in The Google Webmaster Tools are NOT realtime. They lag behind, sometimes up two one or two weeks week. The “Index Status” shows the URLs particularly indexed from this sitemap. Since the sub-sitemaps are new, this can take some time to show up here. Your URLs from the old sitemap are NOT removed! The sitemaps protocol is for adding URLs to the crawling process, not for removing or synchronizing.

To get a more current result, do a site: search in Google. This will also show you the indexed pages.

Just to clarify:

I updated google xml sitemap 2 days ago and I see my search traffic dropped to zero

Answer from the Google Sitemaps FAQ (from Google!):

Q: Some folks have claimed that their sites were penalized after they submitted Sitemaps. Is this a coincidence?
A: Yes. Google will not penalize you for submitting a Sitemap. Sitemaps provide an extra way for us to understand what pages you have on your site, and can help speed up the discovery of new and updated pages on your site. But neither HTML nor XML Sitemaps replace the normal crawling process. Having a Sitemap will not increase your ranking in Google’s search results pages—but it will not reduce it, either.

Just make sure that:

• Google does not report any errors for the sitemap. If it found the entries (=submitted pages) IT IS FINE.
• You are using the same domain everywhere (chose between WITH www OR without, but don’t mix them.)
• Set a preferred domain (with or without www, the SAME like your blog settings and links in your sitemap) in the site settings of Google Webmaster Tools.

Please find attached the screenshot of my website, which is using exactly this version of the sitemaps plugin since over two weeks: http://imgur.com/qpRsEBD

Please see this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-zlib?replies=3
It is already fixed in the development version and will be released soon. Please use the dev version to get the fix immediately.

Thats from the All In One SEO Pack plugin. Make sure you disable the sitemap option there if you use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.

Hi,

there is some whitespace in front of the sitemap. Which plugins are you using? Make sure none of them outputs any whitespace and check if your themes functions.php ends with ?> (no whitespace or new line at the end).

Also please try to use this version and check if it works: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.zip

Thanks, please try to install this version manually:

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.zip

Looks like it is this problem: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-with-zlib

Looks all fine! If you want, you can temporarily give me access to your Google Webmaster Tools, so I can quickly check if everything is alright there. My email address is himself …. arnebrachhold … de

Otherwise I think you will just need to wait a little bit.

Hi,

can you post a link to your sitemap?

Additional things to check:
– Are you always using either http://www.domain.com or domain.com (without www), but not both
– Did you set a “Preferred domain” in the site settings of Google Webmaster Tools which is different from the links in the sitemap?
– Also, according to the Help in the Google Webmaster Tools, the index statistics might be delayed by a few days.