google sitemap error

[sparrow]

Hi

I have submitted my website  to Google sitemap and added meta verify code into my website and the verify was successful. After 2 days there is a sitemap status error under Google Webmaster tools which states.....

Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit

I have read guidelines and dont know what I have done wrong in the first place ?

Have anyone seen this error before?

Please advice.
Thanks
sparrow

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

what is the sitemap URL you submit to Google?

[sparrow]

I submitted [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] to Google sitemap

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

You should submit *sitemap* URL, not the main site URL.
Like: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/sitemap.xml

[sparrow]

you mean I have to create a webpage as sitemap.xml before I submit [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] ?

i have submitted [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] but failed to work

Thanks
Gareth

[sparrow]

ahh I resubmiited [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] and it works then came up with different choices of downloads, what do i do next ?

[sparrow]

sorry me again, I have downloaded sitemap file to my desktop then uploaded to the private folder of my site as there is no public folder, is that right ?

Then to web google webmaster account then choose code serch sitemap (is that correct?) and there is a problem after uploaded sitemap file of my site in the private folder, the error message came up....

The Sitemap must be located at [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]. To add a Sitemap at [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]/www.domain.co.uk/, first add that site to your account and then click the Add a Sitemap link beside it.

Dont understand this ? Please help.

Thanks

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

You should upload resulting sitemap.xml file to your domain root, then make sure that it can be opened in browser with [ External links are visible to logged in users only ] URL.

[sparrow]

i have uploaded sitemap.xml file into root directory and checked [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]
but came up HTTP 404 page error

I have checked root directory and the sitemap.xml file is in the root.

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Your sitemap is opening fine for me.

[wnotis]

"... sitemap status error under Google Webmaster tools which states.....

Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit

I have read guidelines and dont know what I have done wrong in the first place ?

Have anyone seen this error before?

Please advice.
Thanks
sparrow

Yes, I'm getting the same thing.  I've been trying all day to make this thing work, and I don't see what the problem is.  One thing: Google says to put the .xml file in your top level directory, not, as this sitemap generator says to "public_html/" which cannot be created anyway.  There is no such type of file, and it cannot be created.

As far as I can tell, what I got from the downloaded .xml file looks good.  I don't know what the problem is.  I'm about to give up.

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Please let me know your sitemap URL.

[wnotis]

Please let me know your sitemap URL.

[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

I know, the name is long, but I had to distinguish this one from another one that I have been trying to get Google to accept.  I messed around with this all day yesterday, and still no results.  Google just keeps saying it doesn't meet their standard.  I have tried to create one using Google's very complicated Sitemap Generator, and have uploaded all the files to my top level directory. I'm supposed to run a script, but I don't see how to do that, and they don't explain it. So, I came here to this website and created the above.  As stated above, Google won't accept it.

I have no idea what the problem is or what they are looking for.  It looks good to me.

wnotis 

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

you should create a "new site" entry in Google webmaster account with [ External links are visible to logged in users only ] URL and then submit sitemap into it.

[wnotis]

Hello,

you should create a "new site" entry in Google webmaster account with [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] URL and then submit sitemap into it.

I assume you mean replacing "mydomain.com" in the above example with kinsmantile.com.  But I don't see how that could work, as that will not take any browser to my site.  My site is at [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]. It gets forwarded to [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ].  The URL [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] will not get you anywhere. It doesn't exist. There is no such Website.

[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] (as stated above, it gets forwarded to Angelfire) has already been submitted to Google last Monday, and has been verified.  The next step was to submit a Sitemap.  That's where I'm having trouble.  Google has no problem with [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ].

Or, could you mean to resubmit a new site,  [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] and THEN resubmit my sitemap?

What I don't understand here is that they apparently DO find the Sitemap file.  What they are saying is that it is not in the proper format.  According to what I read on this Website, the .xml file created with the free generator should be in the format that they require (i.e. Sitemap Protocol 0.9, as per [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]) It appears that it is; so the question remains: What's wrong? There must be something.