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Sitemaps suddenly broken in Google WebMaster Tools??

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by KVeil, Jan 25, 2008.

  1. #1
    Since yesterday the sitemaps on two of my sites show an error in Google's WMT:

    Neither the site nor the sitemap (http://www.Style4BG.com/sitemap.xml) have changed in the last 6 weeks...

    What is going on? :confused:

    K
     
    KVeil, Jan 25, 2008 IP
  2. dairyman

    dairyman Notable Member

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    I advice you to generate a fresh xml code for the problematic site and then submit to google. Let's see whether it works?
     
    dairyman, Jan 26, 2008 IP
  3. bigbluesky2006

    bigbluesky2006 Active Member

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    I'm having the same problem. I'm showing an error for 4 out of the 12 sites I have listed in GWT.

    I tried generating a new sitemap but get the same error. Not sure what the problem is but it's beginning to drive me crazy! :(
     
    bigbluesky2006, Jan 26, 2008 IP
  4. KVeil

    KVeil Member

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    @diaryman: I had already tried regenerating the XML before I made the post...

    @bigbluesky2006: the two sites continue to show the same error - now a third has joined them :(

    From an initial analysis of the WMT error message, it would seem that Google's sitemap parser is looking for a "required" <mobile> XML tag within the <url> </url> tags ...

    I have not seen a <mobile> XML tag documented anywhere in Google's WMT or on http://www.sitemap.org...

    K
     
    KVeil, Jan 29, 2008 IP
  5. bigbluesky2006

    bigbluesky2006 Active Member

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    It's now come up on 6 of my 12 sites. The interesting thing is it has come up on all the sites where sitemaps were submitted recently. The sites where the sitemaps are a month or more old are not showing an error.
     
    bigbluesky2006, Jan 29, 2008 IP
  6. KVeil

    KVeil Member

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    For me it has come up on a site whose sitemap was submitted Sept. 2007 as well as sites where I had re-submitted the maps a few days ago ...

    Hallo, goooogle ...

    K
     
    KVeil, Jan 29, 2008 IP
  7. KVeil

    KVeil Member

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    Done more research - seems only the site-maps that list only one URL appear to be affected... :confused:

    Google XML sitemap parser problems???

    K
     
    KVeil, Jan 30, 2008 IP
  8. verticity

    verticity Well-Known Member

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    use this site :
    www .xml-sitemaps . com
    for creating sitemap. I hve also made a sitemap using this site for my personal site.
     
    verticity, Jan 30, 2008 IP
  9. bigbluesky2006

    bigbluesky2006 Active Member

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    Yeah, all the sitemaps I'm having problems with are single page sites. :confused:
     
    bigbluesky2006, Feb 1, 2008 IP
  10. KVeil

    KVeil Member

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    As the sitemap parser at Google reads the file, it giving an error on sitemaps with one URL only. In s/w dev, it is not unusual to have problems with 0 or only 1 instances what you are parsing ...

    As I said before:

     
    KVeil, Feb 1, 2008 IP
  11. bigbluesky2006

    bigbluesky2006 Active Member

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    Adding in a second URL and the error goes away. I now have mydomain.com and mydomain.com/index.html in each sitemap.
     
    bigbluesky2006, Feb 2, 2008 IP
  12. KVeil

    KVeil Member

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    That's a smart work-around ... while we are waiting for Google to fix the problem... ;)

    K
     
    KVeil, Feb 3, 2008 IP
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    RoT Well-Known Member

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    still broken...
     
    RoT, Feb 11, 2008 IP
  14. KVeil

    KVeil Member

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    KVeil, Feb 11, 2008 IP
  15. CT SEO

    CT SEO Peon

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    i have used this site as well, and it works good...
     
    CT SEO, Feb 12, 2008 IP
  16. KVeil

    KVeil Member

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    @CT SEO: the discussion above refers to sitemaps with one URL only...

    K
     
    KVeil, Feb 12, 2008 IP
  17. longroad

    longroad Well-Known Member

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    Im having the same problem with sites with more than one page..
     
    longroad, Feb 15, 2008 IP
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    Sench Peon

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    longroad, can you give me the URL of your sitemap file?
     
    Sench, Feb 15, 2008 IP
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    I having the exact same problem with a 50 page site for the past week or so. Google keeps looking for a Mobile tag which is not required. I was going crazy trying to figure what was wrong on my end becuase when I go through the xml everything looks fine. Hopefully, Google will figure this out soon. The site is http://www.duimc.com
     
    Jhar, Feb 17, 2008 IP
  20. FredRoe

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    I have a few hundred sites in google webmaster, and they all look fine to me.
     
    FredRoe, Feb 17, 2008 IP