I get the following message with my latest version of my sitemap (all hand crafted for what is a very small site): URLs not followed When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted. Code (markup): I can read the error message but don't really understand the problem. I have a single page (index.html) which immediately drops you into main.html and all of my menus are JS held in a separate file - I can't see why that would be a problem. Anyway, my real question is: are my pages going to be indexed and if not, which ones will be skipped? site is: http://www.steinbeck-reeves.co.uk sitemap is : http://www.steinbeck-reeves.co.uk/site_map.xml Thanks, Michael
Google does not like redirects off of a site map - especially if there is more than one. Why do you have to redirect people off of a sitemap link? Why not just submit main.html?
Create the site map again with the final destination URLs. Exclude those urls which are redirected to others.
That's what I don't understand. I don't think that I have any redirects... assuming I understand the meaning of redirects correctly. Please do have a look at my site and tell me what you think. Basically the sitemap just points to the pages on the site. The only odd thing is that I link between pages using JS menus. Thanks, Michael
OK - have moved the home page to index.html in the hope that I will have more direct links to it (not sure if that is correct but anyway...) so now no redirection. And I have updated the site-map to reflect the changes. Here's hoping! Michael.