Getting annoyed with my sitemap : Unsupported File Format

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by Monker, Apr 2, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    I am getting annoyed with my new sitemap submission to google. I am using webmasters tools and every time I submit I get "unsupported file format". Is there some bug with google that others have encountered ?, as far as I know my xml file is good.

    It was submitted on April the 1st but this is no joke :rolleyes:

    regards

    Monker
     
    Monker, Apr 2, 2009 IP
  2. spottydog

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    Maybe you need to change how you are creating it.
    I use a website www.xml-sitemaps.com and I never have a problem.
     
    spottydog, Apr 3, 2009 IP
  3. Monker

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    Cheers dude,

    got it sorted now. I was getting too complicated over it, it was a simple whitespace issue plus a couple of wrong characters, xml very unforgiving. Errors sorted, then I fixed the warnings. Now I am wondering why google is saying it has indexed only a fraction of my pages, via the sitemap that is, they say this is normal ?? I know my pages come up on search and am aware that the sitemap map is handled differently.

    Monker
     
    Monker, Apr 15, 2009 IP
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    I have that same issue too, also wondering the answer. my sitemap has many more pages than google has indexed
     
    kristianw, Apr 15, 2009 IP