Hi David,
After up loading my sitemap.php last week which you kindly helped with, Google is now warning that there are errors, looking into it, the warning only comes from one mapped category, which leads me to think it might be a coding thing rather than a datafeed thing or any thing else?
Can you advise please
Regards
Hi David
This is the message I received from google regarding sitemap.php
sitemap.php?category=Day+Dresses
There are 597 url and none were indexed
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted.
where as for sitemap.php?category=Going+Out+Dresses, no problems?
cheers
Hi Paul,
It's because the paths in the sitemap don't contain the hierarchy that now exists on your site; so where it contains:
/day-dresses/?product=Blue+wrap+dress
...should be:
/going-out-dresses/day-dresses/?product=Blue+wrap+dress
I'll email you the latest sitemap.php from your site that I have that should fix this...
Cheers,
David.
Hi David , think im seeing a similar problem.
"URLs not accessible
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted."
HTTP Error: 404
URL: http://www.mysite.co.uk/product/Diamant-Gold-Boxes-Friendship-Bracelets.html
seeing lots of pages the same that are not accessible
Hello Jonny,
A sitemap URL could quite easily be 404 (not found) if, during the period between when Google requested the sitemap and actually made the crawl, your site was updated and some products were removed from the site as they were no longer stocked by the merchant.
As per the message, all accessible URLs will still be submitted, and provide (as should be the case) that they no longer feature the next time sitemap.php is requested then there shouldn't be any problem.
Cheers,
David.
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Hi Paul,
Is there a more detailed error message provided by Google, such as "The sitemap is empty" for example? This could be the case if one of the categories in the $sitemapInclude array that we added to your sitemap.php does not currently have any products under it...
Cheers,
David.