Dear colleagues, I am unable to inform Google and Bing about the location of our pro-sitemaps.com hosted site maps.
*** Google
The instructions state:
Now create an entry for domain that hosts your sitemap:
enter this domain as "Site URL":
[external links are visible to admins only]
PROBLEM = Google knows my site to be [external links are visible to admins only] and forces a sitemap URL to be prefixed with our domain, resulting the nonsense URL [external links are visible to admins only]
QUESTION: Any idea how to work around this?
*** Bing
Instructions say: Add an entry for your website ([external links are visible to admins only]) and verify it (if you have not done so before)
Now create an entry for domain that hosts your sitemap:
enter this domain as "Site URL":
[external links are visible to admins only]
PROBLEM = Bing knows my site to be [external links are visible to admins only], and has verified this one. And when I submit this URL it says: It seems you are not verified to use this location. Yet, the "BingSiteAuth.xml" was uploaded and saved into my pro-sitemaps.com account using the offered interface.
QUESTION: Any idea how to work around this?
Hope to learn from your wisdom and experience. Thanks!
Hans