sitemap help in google

[rufman]

Ok, so I had my sitemap done up and was able to upload it onto my site, now my only question is when I go to the google webmaster tools it asks the url of the sitemap.  Do I need to create a new webpage and just copy an paste the info from the sitemap into the html in between the body tags or??

Help!

Rufman
www.tankinz.com

[Sunshine]

hi, this may not be right as I am a newbie myself, but if you just type in your web address into the browser and also type in the filename /sitemap.xml it might well pop up so you can see it.

for example in the search bar at the top type in [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] and hit return. This is actually your sitemap address. It took me a few weeks to work that our as well!

good luck

sunshine

[Sunshine]

not sure if you got all of that message it seems to have cut some of it out. just type in /sitemap.xml after your .co.uk or .com of your full web address.

regards
sunshine

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

That's correct - you should submit [ External links are visible to logged in users only ] URL.

[jenzmuda]

When i enter the url for my site map generated by this website, i enter [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] into Google's webmaster tools and it says 'You have entered a URL to a file. Please enter the site URL."   I don't understand why I am receiving this error. Can someone please help me?

Thanks!

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

as a first step, you should add your site profile there (entering *website* URL).
Then you add sitemap to it (this time sitemap.xml is entered).

[bryane]

Hi I've just had a similar problem.  I didn't have a public folder but a htdocs folder, I saved the xml sitemap there then when inputting my URL to Google I put /htdocs/xml-sitemap at the end.  Don't know if it's the software I have but it seems to have worked!