I have searched threads with this problem and find several people that got this error because they were not exporting and instead saving the project as a file. I did the export xml sitemap & uploaded to Google but it still doesn’t recognize.
If I open the file with word & compare with google instruction for Sitemap guidelines everything seems to match up???
I went to your url/sitemap1.xml and was redirected rather than being shown the sitemap. Put the sitemap in the main directory, give it a different name (try esitemap.xml) than you have been using before and post the link here.
I should be able to click that link and see a sitemap using Firefox just like I do with url/sitemap.xml. If I can’t, then the problem is with the redirect (perhaps .htaccess file, or something is causing the redirect.)
Let me know.
Regards,
Jim.
No Idea, but humor me and rename sitemap.xml to sitemap.org and sitemap1.xml to sitemap.xml
or just rename sitemap1.xml to esitemap.xml
Thanks!
Hi Jim,
Both files are in the same directory right next to each other.
Why would one redirect and not the other?
No, that style sheet is correct. Don’t edit anything and just put the sitemap that my sitemap generator created on the main page as esitemap.xml – if you use GOogle Chrome, it should come up fine. If you would like your own style sheet, I’ll explain that, but first, let’s make sure that the orginal sitemap xml file my generator created is working fine.
Let me know once it’s up and then I’ll give you more information.
Hey, by the way, why was the sitemap1.xml redirecting – Just gotta know
Regards,
Jim.
Jim,
The file that your generator created is up. It does appear to be reading fine but I have a warning from google:
Leading whitespace
We’ve detected that your Sitemap file begins with whitespace. We’ve accepted the file, but you may want to remove the whitespace so that the file adheres to the XML standard.
Do I need to worry about this?
As for the redirect – I have no idea. I had an ESI_sitemap.xls that was also redirecting.
Hi Jos,
That file is not an XML Sitemap file from my site. My site has a stylesheet associated with it and none of the sitemaps, (the sitemap XML or just XML files) contain the extra space that your sitemap has.
Perhaps you got this mixed up with something else or modified it and forgot?
Once you have generated a XML Sitemap from my tool and placed it on your site, you should be all set. Let me know and I’ll verify it.
Regards,
Jim.
Okay, maybe I got the files mixed up when renaming???
I re ran the tool, exported as xml sitemap & uploaded via ftp to the root
I can go to the url & see a page of url,s in Chrome. In firefox I see a list of url’s with this error at the top:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
I just re-submitted to google via webmaster… hopefully all will go well
I will re-post when I get feedback from google
Thanks
I reran the tool & uploaded via ftp… still have the leading whitespace error?
I see we are on the same track. I already did that and it seems to work accept:
"This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."
That error comes up when I go to the url
I open the file with note pad & the top of the file has this that appears to be missing from the url:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="auditmypc.com/sitemap.xsl"?>
<urlset
xmlns="sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
>
<url>
Is there a ‘>’ missing from ‘<urlset’?