Hi all I had no problem with my google sitemaps however recently the whole lot of my sitemaps went down and most came up with the following reason: Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit. Is anyone else having the same problem that their xml google sitemaps was working and now not? Can any one explain to me if there have been changes to the required sitemap format or explain to me what i can do to fix my sitemaps???
You can generate a fresh site map again (sitemap.xml and robots.txt) and upload it to server. Then submit it to google and let us see your problem is solved sooner
Site maps are now fully accepted with no errors from google. It seems many people i have spoken to have had the same issue recently even though the sitemap is fine and the url was correct they got error messages. But after persisting and persevering i logged in to my webmaster tool account and they are all now fine. Must have been a google glitch??????
I only submitted my sitemap a few days ago, but was very impressed at how easy it was and how Google validate it and tell you it's OK.
hmm ok so my sitemaps were ok and then within 24 hours they said they had errors again. I cant understand why Maybe someone can take a look at my sitemaps to see if they can spot anything wrong 1) http://www.online-shop.com.au/catalogues/sitemap.xml 2) http://www.online-shop.com.au/sitemap.xml 3) http://www.fishingtackleshop.com.au/sitemap.xml.gz
just resubmit your sitemap. i think your server was having problems while googlebot is visiting your site