problem with my google sitemap XML file??

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by m93rd, Jul 5, 2006.

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    in my cpanel login-- i looked at my latest vistors -- just to see why i am not being indexed properly from google-- if i do a siote search in google i only get 1 page for my site. which is the home page and it is not even the www. version, which i already set up the redirect a couple of weeks ago.


    In the log i see the following:

    /sitemap.xml
    Http Code: 304 Date: Jul 05 15:04:47 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: -
    Referer: -
    Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)


    --This is all i see. It seems to go no where further.
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    you can see the site map XML file here:
    http://www.eyegoodies.com/sitemap.xml

    do i have a problem with this or my robots file because i get regular visits from googlebot yet it goes no where.
    Help appreciated
     
    m93rd, Jul 5, 2006 IP
  2. MikeSwede

    MikeSwede Peon

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    #2
    with your sitemap.
    To me, as I have reported here, there seems to be something weird going on with their Googlebot. My site gets spidered but Googlebot have the paths wrong so it can't find pages so almost all of my pages that I used to have has gone supplemental and because of that my site has almost gone. I guess Google needs space for spam sites :mad:
     
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  3. athlonin

    athlonin Guest

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    #3
    I am having similar problems. Google gives me 1 result with 6 suplementals. However, msn contains 82 of my pages and Yahoo has over 200. I think my sitemap is fine and Google is to blame.

    Just to make sure my .htaccess is not to blame, is the following ok?

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*) http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
     
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  4. SEOMumbai

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    No problem with the sitemap. Blame Google ;)
     
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  5. MaxPowers

    MaxPowers Well-Known Member

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    I use

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,L]
     
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  6. MaxPowers

    MaxPowers Well-Known Member

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    The 304 status code is a Not Modified status. Your server is telling Google that nothing has changed since XXXX. Setup your sitemap to re-upload themselves or use a sitemap creation service that reloads your sitemaps, but the last-modified date on your sitemap file needs to change.
     
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  7. m93rd

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    Sorry but i am new at this. To create the site map i used a program on m,y desktop to create the xml file in which i manually uploaded to my server using cpanel. Could u describe a little more about what exactly i need to do.
     
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  8. jquindlen

    jquindlen Notable Member

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    Before using a sitemap google indexed more of my pages than after I added one. I just deleted my sitemap today, so I'm interested in seeing if that will help me.
     
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