I have a script which automatically generates my sitemaps for me, although due to a simple typo, my dates were showing up incorrectly. eg: <lastmod>1969-12-31T18:00:15+00:00</lastmod> Strange thing is, the google sitemap verification did not pick this up as being invalid. I'm not sure if this would have affected the search engine's ability to process this map or not. Does anyone know of a better sitemap verification tool out there which will not only verify the XML but also put some sanity checking into the content?
Use any one of the following tools to generate the codes for the xml site map http://www.vigos.com/products/gsitemap/ www.freesitemapgenerator.com www.writemaps.com http://gsitecrawler.com/ http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp Hope your problems will be solved.