Errors with google sitemap submission

Hi Ken,

Those sitemaps are showing as empty at the moment, which is probably why Google is raising a warning about them. These may be feeds that you have yet to re-register and import since their format changed.

You are correct that www.example.com/sitemap.php is the only URL you need to submit.

Cheers,
David.

I will try sitemap.php and re submit it to google to see what happens as I tried the link http://www.deal-snatcher.com/sitemap.php?merchant=Europc and it is now working.
Thank you

K

Hi i think i have uploaded all the feeds and imported them correctly as i am given a number of products and when searched for through PT i get product results.

This is the output i get with the following url

http://www.deal-snatcher.com/sitemap.php?merchant=EmpireDirect

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

any other suggetions

Hi Ken,

The "no style information" is nothing to worry about. Your main sitemap.php output, and the associated merchant sitemaps now look correct. The URL in your previous email is not actually one of the valid merchant sitemaps and should not be being requested by Google - the correct URL has a space between Empire and Direct (I don't recommend trying to view it, it will take forever in a browser!!)

Google should clear the errors the next time it requests your sitemaps.

Cheers,
David.

I just came to ask a question about sitemaps myself, so thought i would ask in this thread, hope thats ok.

As each of my categories is a separate installation of price tapestry, I have made a master sitemap for the root direcory that contains the url to each category.

Such as
http://www.findallsorts.com/shopUK/c/flowers

Which points to the index.php of that installaion, but I get this warning...

"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."

Anyway do you know how I can get round that, I dont see where the redirects come into it, is it because the urls are merchant php queries on the index page?

Hi Clare,

I'm not 100% about this, but the Google Sitemaps documentation indicates that only a sitemapindex should link to other sitemaps.

At the moment, you have your main sitemap (sitemap.xml) which is standard urlset. I notice at the bottom you have a link to sitemap1.xml, which is also a urlset. This in turn links to the individual category sitemap indexes, which finally link to the category urlsets. This may be what is upsetting Googlebot.

My recommendation would be to create a single sitemap.xml which is a sitemapindex. In this, link to all your category sitemapindexes, and to a new top level sitemap1.xml which should be a urlset. Hopefully that should improve the situation.

I'm not completely sure about that however as the message doesn't really make sense - there are no redirects in the traditional sense involved - Price Tapestry with .htaccess uses server side redirection which is transparent to the requesting user-agent. If this suggestion doesn't help it may be worth contacting Google for clarification of the message...

Cheers,
David.

Thanks, will do that.