Google SitemapAdmin

[gsdcypher]

Hi,

Zen Cart 1.3.8a
Google Sitemap Version Date 1.3.18 15.04.2008 15:20

I have many products that are copied to multiple categories...

From Google:
When we processed your Sitemap, we found that some URLs aren't accessible to Googlebot because they contain too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target).
This category lists URLs that we were unable to completely follow, along with some information as to why. In general, keep in the mind the following to ensure Google's spiders can follow links in your site:

• Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, since many search engines see your site much as Lynx would. If features such as Javascript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
• Don't use &ID= as a parameter in your URLs.
• If you use dynamic pages (for instance, the URL contains a ? character), be aware that not all search engine spiders crawl dynamic and static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
• If you are permanently redirecting from one page to another, use a permanent redirect (301).
• Where possible, use absolute rather than relative links. (For instance, when linking to another page in your site, link to www.example.com/mypage.html rather than simply mypage.html).

301 (Moved permanently) The requested page has been permanently moved to a new location. When the server returns this response (as a response to a GET or HEAD request), it automatically forwards the requestor to the new location. You should use this code to let Googlebot know that a page or site has permanently moved to a new location.

thanks!

[kitcorsa]

Hi,

Zen Cart 1.3.8a
Google Sitemap Version Date 1.3.18 15.04.2008 15:20

I have many products that are copied to multiple categories...

From Google:
When we processed your Sitemap, we found that some URLs aren't accessible to Googlebot because they contain too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target).

This category lists URLs that we were unable to completely follow, along with some information as to why. In general, keep in the mind the following to ensure Google's spiders can follow links in your site:

• Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, since many search engines see your site much as Lynx would. If features such as Javascript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
• Don't use &ID= as a parameter in your URLs.
• If you use dynamic pages (for instance, the URL contains a ? character), be aware that not all search engine spiders crawl dynamic and static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
• If you are permanently redirecting from one page to another, use a permanent redirect (301).
• Where possible, use absolute rather than relative links. (For instance, when linking to another page in your site, link to www.example.com/mypage.html rather than simply mypage.html).

301 (Moved permanently) The requested page has been permanently moved to a new location. When the server returns this response (as a response to a GET or HEAD request), it automatically forwards the requestor to the new location. You should use this code to let Googlebot know that a page or site has permanently moved to a new location.

thanks!

i had the same error, the error is got to do with you submitted a sitemap and then changed something so what the sitemap says and what google bot sees is different i belive. i just updates and pinged google again and 3 days later error was gone

[gsdcypher]

I thought that was the case with my site to, so I did the same thing. I recreated, resubmitted and re-pinged everything. It worked for a few days and then starting popping warnings again (even though I didn't change anything).

you submitted a sitemap and then changed something so what the sitemap says and what google bot sees is different i belive. i just updates and pinged google again and 3 days later error was gone

[Tapper]

Hi All

I've read most of this thread and searched around, but I haven't seen anyone that couldn't find their sitemap. I ran the Google XML Sitemap in February, then I read the post today about the debug code, so I instlalled the latest version and ran it again. Ther is NO sitemap.xml file generated that I can see. My site is in /catalog/ in my server. I looked in most of the top-level dirs and there are no XML files there at all. The googlesitemap.php file is here and there, but there are no xml files near them.

Where is ti supposed to be? I am running Zen Cart 1.3.8a. This site was installed in February, so the cart and modes are all pretty much up-to-date.

Thanks

[Lampivimpa]

What I'm doing wrong?
I'm trying to install this mod but the only thing that happens: Into Admin>Conficuration there appears "Google XML Sitemap". There is nothing to conficure. In Admin>Tools there is nothing new.
What is the location I exactly have to copy these XML-files and PHP-files?

[gsdcypher]

Follow up:

Zen Cart 1.3.8a
Google Sitemap Version Date 1.3.18 15.04.2008 15:20

I recreated and reloaded my sitemaps. And google is still giving the same warnings...

Google sitemap keeps popping warnings on my sitemaps.
URLs not followed
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.

You must know the address and redirect reasons.
What version of the Google SitemapAdmin?
I can add a tool to check url in sitemaps xml.

[8808alpha]

Okay so here is my issue and I'll try my best to expalin it.

I have created my site map through site map admin and it creates the three site maps for the index, categories and products. However it displays:

Generated Google Sitemap Index Successfully - http://www.mydomain.com/sitemapindex.xml

The above message is displayed for all three files but the problem is that they are really not there and were actually created in the http://www.mydomain.com/mystore/ directory which is the correct place.

And eventhough sitemapindex.xml, sitemapcategories.xml and sitemapproducts.xml are all in http://www.mydomain.com/mystore/ - sitemapindex.xml has the path of the other two files as http://www.mydomain.com/sitemapcategories.xml and http://www.mydomain.com/sitemapproducts.xml

And if I hit send to crawler in step 2 of site map admin, it sends the sitemap path of http://www.mydomain.com/sitemapindex.xml

So this is causing the search engines to fail when they try and crawl my site.

Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks.

[hxh444]

Hi,I have installed the "ADMIN PROFILE" module first.When I installed the "Google SitemapAdmin" and assign the right items in admin permissions.
But in the config->Google XML Sitemap,there is no config content but the title.However,in the tools->Google XML Sitemap ,everything is OK.Is there any one can help me?Thanks!

[imperialis]

Hi
When I go to Google it says I have an error
Unsuported file format
This is what it says where should I change this?

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

Some things you might check are:

That the file uses the correct header. For a Sitemap file, the header can look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
For a Sitemap index file, the header can look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas<wbr>/sitemap/0.9">
That the namespace in the header is "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9". Note that this must end in 0.9. If it ends in .9, you'll see an error.

That each XML attribute is enclosed in either single quotes (') or double quotes (") and that those quotes are straight, not curly. If you use a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, you may find that it inserts curly quotes.

[rlfreshwater]

Hi
When I go to Google it says I have an error
Unsuported file format
This is what it says where should I change this?

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

Some things you might check are:

That the file uses the correct header. For a Sitemap file, the header can look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
For a Sitemap index file, the header can look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas<wbr>/sitemap/0.9">
That the namespace in the header is "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9". Note that this must end in 0.9. If it ends in .9, you'll see an error.

That each XML attribute is enclosed in either single quotes (') or double quotes (") and that those quotes are straight, not curly. If you use a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, you may find that it inserts curly quotes.

Does anyone have a solution for this? I am getting the same "unsupported file format" error from Google.