I created a xml sitemap, but Google wouldnt allow it

Hi, I created a sitemap of my website: http://www.lilwaynehq.com/sitemap and I have tried all extensions such as: xml, html, php etc, but it kept coming back as an error by Google when I added them from the webmasters tools

Anyone know why its an error? and how I can fix it

Thanks

 

That isn't an XML Sitemap, thats why. Its just a normal page with lots of <a> links.

You should learn how to create a proper XML Sitemap.

This is an example of one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset 
		xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" 
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 
		http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
>
<url>
    <loc>http://www.example.com</loc>
</url>
<url>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/page.php</loc>
</url>
</urlset>

Code (markup):

Its as simple as that. To add new pages, just copy the <url> to </url> code and change the URL to the next page.

Hope I helped!

 

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

 

If you can find an automated xml script (free of course!) then let me know.

 

To understand the differences between XML and HTML sitemaps, you may check this sitemaps comparison article containing explanation and code samples for all sitemap file kinds.

 

thankssssss

 

Well I tried what you said hosty-crocodile: http://www.lilwaynehq.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml

But as you can see, it doesn't look correct, I know I havent changed the links to my own website, but I can easy do that, but I want to get it working right first.

Can anyone help me

Thanks