Unsupported format error

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by Fix Johnson, Sep 12, 2006.

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    I spent two weeks figuring out how to run the Python google sitemap program and now Google says there is an error. Your sitemap seems to be in unsupported format. I check file against their requirements but found no problems.

    Anybody got any ideas? Hate to have wasted all that damn time:mad:

    Thanks

    Fix
     
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  2. masm50

    masm50 Well-Known Member

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    #2
    What's the url of your sitemap?

    -Tim
     
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  3. rzvagelsky

    rzvagelsky Well-Known Member

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    I would suggest using a free sitemap creater like gsitecrawler...i used it today for the first time and it worked really well.
     
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  4. Mwb2k

    Mwb2k Peon

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    When my sitemaps loads 100% OK in Internet Explorer, then they are also good for google.
     
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  5. Fix Johnson

    Fix Johnson Well-Known Member

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    #5
    url is napoleon.cc/sitemap.xml.gz

    it loads in directory beneath public_html, so I copied it to public_html in case that was the problem

    Thanks for your help
     
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  6. Fix Johnson

    Fix Johnson Well-Known Member

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    Has nobody else got errors with Googles site map program? Have read googles instructions but still can not figure out why they think it is in unsupported format. Has anybody got any ideas, other than changing programs. I have a lot of time invested in this one and would like to fix it if possible.

    Thanks Fix
     
    Fix Johnson, Sep 18, 2006 IP
  7. The Webmaster

    The Webmaster IdeasOfOne

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    Post your sitemap format here...URL is not working...
     
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  8. Fix Johnson

    Fix Johnson Well-Known Member

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    #8
    This is info of config file:


    <!-- ** MODIFY or DELETE **
    "directory" nodes tell the script to walk the file system
    and include all files and directories in the Sitemap.

    Required attributes:
    path - path to begin walking from
    url - URL equivalent of that path

    Optional attributes:
    default_file - name of the index or default file for directory URLs
    -->
    <directory path="/home/napoleon/public_html" url="http://www.napoleon.cc/" />
    <directory
    path="/home/napoleon/public_html"
    url="http://www.napoleon.cc/"
    default_file="index.html"
    />

    Thank you,

    Roger Frost
     
    Fix Johnson, Sep 19, 2006 IP
  9. richarduk

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    sometimes (if my site is very overloaded), google will return an unsupported format error, if it failed to download all the sitemap. I just resubmit and google gets the sitemap OK 2nd time round.
     
    richarduk, Oct 17, 2006 IP