Webmaster Tools - Added Warnings for Sitemaps

Hello....

I just checked Google webmasters and was surprised to
see something New that wasn't their before..

Heres what i found...

Sitemap warnings for http://www.biz-king.com/sitemap.xml

This Sitemap has the following warnings.
These warnings will not prevent normal processing of your Sitemap or crawling of your site.
However, we encourage you to investigate and fix these issues within your 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.

Just thought id share so that you guys get a heads up...

Ill see whats going on shortly and get that fixed

thx
malcolm

 

Ya, that's true, I have seen many scripts doing so. It is more practical

 

I just came on here to get help with the same "Sitemap Warnings". I had unlucky 13 from a total of 113 with the same error message. It is definitely a new error message because my sites are a few months old and I check them at least once a week, this is the first time I have seen it. I checked one of them and could not see anything wrong with it so I resubmitted it. I came back a few minutes later and it was okay. I just resubmitted the rest of them and they immediately passed okay and I do not have any error messages now. I will recheck them again tomorrow of course and keep my eye on them.

Ozzy

 

not sure if its new or old my site is only 2weeks old and i got 3 today.

 

I had a warning too. It was about sitemap beginning with a space.

 

Yes, I think that's it. All of the warnings are for my html-pages either beginning with a space or ending in a space. Even though mine are okay at the moment I think I'll go in and delete the spaces at the beginning and ending of all mine because I'm sure they'll be flagged up tomorrow. Thanks for that,

Ozzy

 

thanks for noting this, i had a warning on my sitemap due to one of the directories being disallowed in my robots.txt

i also had an error on my rss feed (we switched it to feedburner, so the old path was no longer valid)

 

I thought they had too, but I might just have been under that impression since it has to verify your sitemap initially and will warn you during that process, if I'm not mistaken.

-Michael

 

just wonder what sitemap generator is the best.

 

GWT always would tell you the bad url's, maybe this is a different feature, but I'm sure it's been there b4.

Thanks for the tip

 

thanks for this thread, i have to check the sitemaps of my basic html sites

 

I'd like to know this to. Is there a page limit? My polling site has thousands of pages.

 

go ahead google