Sitemap Errors. What Do They Mean?

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by jvfconsulting, Dec 7, 2009.

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    We recently updated our sitemap, but when I went to test it using the XML Sitemap tester I got these errors. Are they serious? What is causing them? Should I disregard them?

    Our Sitemap
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/sitemap.xml

    Used the validator here...
    http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html

    Errors it spit out...
    Problems with the schema-validity of the target

    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/sitemap.xml:9:5: Invalid per cvc-complex-type.1.2.4:
    element {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}:changefreq not allowed here (5) in element {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}:url, expecting [{Wildcard: ##other, strict},$]:

    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/sitemap.xml:17:5: Invalid per cvc-complex-type.1.2.4:
    element {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}:changefreq not allowed here (5) in element {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}:url, expecting [{Wildcard: ##other, strict},$]:

    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/sitemap.xml:25:5: Invalid per cvc-complex-type.1.2.4:
    element {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}:changefreq not allowed here (5) in element {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}:url, expecting [{Wildcard: ##other, strict},$]:
     
    jvfconsulting, Dec 7, 2009 IP