Google reporting sitemap file invalid format

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by rebeltaz, Apr 16, 2008.

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    According to the Google guidlines page:

    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34654

    you can create a sitemap file using a text editor (ie. NotePad) as long as you have one URL per line and the file is saves with a .TXT extension using UTF-8 formatting.

    I have tried everything I can think of to submit this file to Google, but they keep reporting that it has errors - Unsupported File Format. Can someone take a look at this file and tell me WHY I keep getting this error? I can't figure it out...

    http://www.robotsandcomputers.com/sitemap.txt

    Thanks.

    Derek Tombrello
    www.RobotsAndComputers.com
     
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  2. ahelpinghand

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    Well, I will try to help but I always use XML sitemaps. In the answer Google is saying " You must fully specify URLs as Google attempts to crawl them exactly as provided." So try to add http:// at the beginning of every url and try to submit the file again.
     
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  4. rebeltaz

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    I swear... Thank you both.

    Even in there guidelines, the example they give says www.example.com/file1.html.... Nowhere do they mention http:// !


    It worked fine... Thanks again.
     
    rebeltaz, Apr 17, 2008 IP