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Hello, I have a simple 9-page web site.  I submitted a sitemap to Google and I received an error message that  it was in an Unsupported file format.  Strangely enough I copied and pasted their example into a file in Notepad++, changed the URLs to my website and saved it.  And I must have done something wrong (!).

In any case, could anyone point out what I did wrong? Here it is :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  < urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/index.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/profile.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/portfolio.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/advertising.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/marketing.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/rescent.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/mktgnews.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/mktgres.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
   < url>
    < loc>http://www.marketingbuilds.com/contact.html</loc>
    < lastmod>2007-09-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    < priority>0.8</priority>
   </url> 
  </urlset>

Haven't you downloaded one from this site?

What's the filename for your sitemap?

Hello,

instead of copy'n'pasting URLs, you should create sitemap using online sitemap generator, then save it to your computed and upload to your site.