New to sitemaps and need some help

Hi,

I am about 3 weeks into building a website (http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net) and I am having some problems with google and my site map.

I keep getting an error after I submit the sitemap saying that all pages have the same priority. Initially, they were all the same, but I have since changed it. Google still gives me that error.

I have attached the sitemap for your review.

I cannot seem to figure out the problem.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

<?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.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/index.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.9</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/contact-us.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/residential-cabinetry-and-moulding.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/commercial-and-archetectural-cabinetry-and-millwork.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/Cable-Natural-History-Museum.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.7</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/bayfield-county-courthouse.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.7</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/pictures-of-our-work.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/home-or-commercial-cabinetry-remodeling.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.robscustomcabinetry.net/index.html/history-and-general-information.html</loc>
<lastmod>2009-02-25T14:42:21+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

 

Hi paprgypc

How did you create this sitemap? Also it takes google some time to review your sitemap. You will need to be patient with this. But to ensure that this is a parsing error. How did you create the xml file?

 

I created the sitemap in webplusx2 and have had google index all the pages on my site. However, I keep getting the warning that I have all pages the same priority.

Not sure if I should be concerned or not. I do want google to like my site so things go smoothly when they arrive.

thanks,

Jim

 

I know of many people generating there sitemaps online via

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

Just follow the steps. Let me know if you are still having the problem.

Im also not sure how critical google is for this error. But best to have everything in line. generate, delete/move old sitemap from server, then place new sitemap and upload to google. Lets see what happens.

 

It often takes some time for Google to update/refresh states and remove warnings.

 

Just submit your updated sitemap file and wait until Google find your updated sitemap..

 

Manesh, the post is not about posting the sitemap and waiting for google to update. Theirs a problem with priority settings when submitting that google replies with errors. There is no problem submitting the sitemap. Any updates on this paprgypc?

 

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ works for me and also can you not manually prioritise the pages?

 

Check your .htacess file as there might be something lurking there thast might be causing a timeout issue and hence non performance

 

I know it very well..But what I want to tell you is that when you update your updated sitemap url in webmaster tool. It will not update the error status at the same. Once Google find the updated sitemap file, that error status message will be removed...

 

oh gotcha. Sorry i misread your statement. google does take a little time to update the records.

 

Just wanted to let you know that I did get my sitemap issues resolved. It turns out that I had created an index.html file on my root directory. I had all the web pages going to this file and it confused google. After I straightened out the file structure at the host google crawled the site with no problems.

Thanks,


Jim