Google SitemapAdmin

[hem]

Just a quick note to say well done on this mod. I've installed it on 3 sites so far and it's worked straight out of the box with little to no configuration.

[rlfreshwater]

rlfreshwater,
I think I found it.

Andrew:
Thank you so much for your help, but it turns out it was user error. I was submitting "googlesitemap.php" to Google instead of the .xml files. It's working fine now.

[hem]

Andrew:
Thank you so much for your help, but it turns out it was user error. I was submitting "googlesitemap.php" to Google instead of the .xml files. It's working fine now.

But "googlesitemap.php" is what you are supposed to submit. Submitting the individual xmls will work though but my understanding is that the php "refreshes" the xmls when called by the Google Crawler.

Did you include the "?inline=yes" argument?

[rlfreshwater]

But "googlesitemap.php" is what you are supposed to submit. Submitting the individual xmls will work though but my understanding is that the php "refreshes" the xmls when called by the Google Crawler.

Oh.

Did you include the "?inline=yes" argument?

Not to my knowledge. Where does this need to be placed?

[hem]

Oh.


Not to my knowledge. Where does this need to be placed?

Okay, a couple of things-

When adding the sitemap details to Google webmaster, you need to submit the following URL for your sitemap:

googlesitemap.php?inline=yes

do not include 'http://www.queerrepublictees.com/' as Google will automatically prepend it.

and you need to add the following to the bottom of your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.queerrepublictees.com/sitemapindex.xml

[rlfreshwater]

Andrew (from Dublin):
DONE! Thanks! I will check the status a little later to see if that worked.

[hem]

Interesting- I added the 'url' attribute to the xml headers and now Google Webmaster is issuing warnings left right and centre (I forgot the important lesson: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"). It would appear that Google and Sitemap.org do not agree:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...emapValidation

versus

http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#validating

[paulyrob]

I've had a site built for me using ZC 1.3.8 and now I have a question re Google Sitemaps. Sadly my developer is off on a long holiday otherwise I'd ask him.

I've registered with Google Webmaster which is crawling the site but says I don't have a Site Map. Looking at my site I can see the the Site Map code so how do I submit it to Google?

I went into Tools - Google XML Sitemap Admin and created (but did nothing else) the following code:

Google Sitemap Generation (v 1.3.19 20.04.2008 17:24) started

Save path - "/home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/"
Base URL - "http://www.xxx.com/"
File "robots.txt" not found in save path - "/home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/robots.txt"

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapproducts.xml OK! Written 20 records, 4458 bytes
Generated Google Product Sitemap Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapproducts.xml

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapcategories.xml OK! Written 9 records, 2081 bytes
Generated Google Category Sitemap Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapcategories.xml

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapezpages.xml OK! Written 8 records, 1564 bytes
Generated Google EZPages Sitemap Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapezpages.xml

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapindex.xml OK! Written 3 records, 733 bytes
Generated Google Sitemap Index Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapindex.xml

Total Execution Time 0:0.2610

Is this correct? Does "File 'robots.txt' not found...." indicate a problem? Finally, where does this Site Map actually go in my site so Google registers it?

Apologies for the long post.

Paulyrob

[hem]

I've had a site built for me using ZC 1.3.8 and now I have a question re Google Sitemaps. Sadly my developer is off on a long holiday otherwise I'd ask him.

I've registered with Google Webmaster which is crawling the site but says I don't have a Site Map. Looking at my site I can see the the Site Map code so how do I submit it to Google?

I went into Tools - Google XML Sitemap Admin and created (but did nothing else) the following code:

Google Sitemap Generation (v 1.3.19 20.04.2008 17:24) started

Save path - "/home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/"
Base URL - "http://www.xxx.com/"
File "robots.txt" not found in save path - "/home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/robots.txt"

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapproducts.xml OK! Written 20 records, 4458 bytes
Generated Google Product Sitemap Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapproducts.xml

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapcategories.xml OK! Written 9 records, 2081 bytes
Generated Google Category Sitemap Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapcategories.xml

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapezpages.xml OK! Written 8 records, 1564 bytes
Generated Google EZPages Sitemap Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapezpages.xml

Processing file: /home/sites/xxx.com/public_html/sitemapindex.xml OK! Written 3 records, 733 bytes
Generated Google Sitemap Index Successfully - http://www.xxx.com/sitemapindex.xml

Total Execution Time 0:0.2610

Is this correct? Does "File 'robots.txt' not found...." indicate a problem? Finally, where does this Site Map actually go in my site so Google registers it?

Apologies for the long post.

Paulyrob

My post 3 messages back pretty much answers that.

[paulyrob]

Doh!

Sometimes you just can't see the wood for the trees.

Thanks