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Google Sitemaps FAQ

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by astup1didiot, Oct 27, 2007.

  1. cohnpeter3

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    #41
    I thought this might help

    http://quick-help.net/xml-sitemaps
     
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  3. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #43
    Yes, I've seen those threads. It is\was an error on Google's side I believe, nothing related to the FAQ.
     
    astup1didiot, Jan 30, 2008 IP
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    #44
    @ssandecki: Any idea when it will be fixed?

    K
     
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  5. astup1didiot

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    Not sure, I didn't know they were still have sitemap issues. You link me directly to your xml sitemap and I'll review it and make sure its standard. I've been lucky and had no issues.
     
    astup1didiot, Jan 31, 2008 IP
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  7. KVeil

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    #47
    Update: The problem only seems to have started occurring with sitemaps listing one URL only. I added an additional URL entry (for the RSS feed) in the sitemap of one site (resulting in the "HL7Experts" sitemap having 2 entries) and the problem went away:

    http://www.HL7-Experts.info/sitemap.xml is now OK

    http://www.Style4BG.com/sitemap.xml still is showing an error in WMT

    Seems like a Google sitemap parsing bug for sure ...

    K

    @ssandecki: What are your thoughts on including RSS links in sitemaps?
     
    KVeil, Jan 31, 2008 IP
  8. astup1didiot

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  9. KVeil

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    Ahhh, I forgot about that. Got me on that one!
     
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  11. KVeil

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    #51
    The advantage of using the V0.9 sitemap protocol is that I believe it is accepted across other search engines (Yahoo, MS Live, etc.) ...

    Adding a stylesheet also eliminates the "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it" error displayed in some browsers...

    I had looked at your very useful FAQ but did not find any references to including the URLS of RSS feeds. Any thoughts on this?

    Also, I noticed you don't use the <priority> tags ...

    K
     
    KVeil, Jan 31, 2008 IP
  12. astup1didiot

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    Priority, changefreq and modification date are all optional :)
     
    astup1didiot, Jan 31, 2008 IP
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    #53
    Yes, this is true - but why not give the web-crawlers hints about the priority and update frequency of our pages?

    K
     
    KVeil, Jan 31, 2008 IP
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    #54
    I wonder ... if my sitemap is not accurate , will it hurt my crawled efficiency ???
     
    rachel4u, Feb 1, 2008 IP
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    #56
    I don't believe the Google really follows the optional tags unless used properly and accurately.
     
    astup1didiot, Feb 1, 2008 IP
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    Excellent, those threads kept growing and growing :D
     
    astup1didiot, Feb 9, 2008 IP
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    #59
    Oops, was I too fast? I just re-checked my Google WMT Dashboard - and the errors are back :confused:

    Could this be a data center issue? Eg. am I getting my WMT Dashboard reports from different data centers - and some still show the errors? :eek:

    K
     
    KVeil, Feb 9, 2008 IP
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    Your stilling getting errors?
     
    astup1didiot, Feb 11, 2008 IP