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steeringman
Joined: Feb 25, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Feb-27 07:11
So I have been going through all the various steps in order to make my website more search engine friendly, but I am having trouble with the sitemap. I ran the sitemap program from a link I found on these forums and everything came out right. However, I placed this HTML code onto my ftp server and in doing so I have gotten errors twice in a row stating...
"Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit."
Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong, or where I should be putting the html code they are giving me?
Thanks for the help
SteeringMan
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Hampstead
Joined: Feb 20, 2001
# Posts: 2015
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Posted: 2008-Feb-27 08:14
I'm guessing you are getting the error from Google Webmaster Central.
If so, the sitemap needs to be in XML not HTML.
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Prowler
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Joined: Aug 14, 2000
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Posted: 2008-Feb-27 08:50
Your site map should be in the format as outlined here: [link]
These sitemaps need to follow the protocol which is a dialect of XML for summarizing sitemap information, as outlined in Google's webmaster guideline pages.
It looks like this:
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Hampstead
Joined: Feb 20, 2001
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Posted: 2008-Feb-27 09:02
xml-sitemaps.com will produce one for you. Or, if you want to buy a sitemap generator, those lovely people at Coffee Cup Software have a good one.
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steeringman
Joined: Feb 25, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Feb-27 16:43
Thanks for the responses...
I did run the sitemap program and get an output like you said. I saved the file in .xml format. But where exactly do I paste this information?
As of now I just have a sitemap.xml file in my main directory on the web server. Should the code actually be placed on one of my main pages like my homepage or is what I am doing correct?
Thanks
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Hampstead
Joined: Feb 20, 2001
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Posted: 2008-Feb-28 07:43
The site map needs to be in your web facing directory so that it may be found at domain.com/sitemap.xml.
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akashdwivedi
Joined: Jan 21, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Feb-28 09:55
If you still searching for a solution to your problem -
just copy and replace the below two lines of code with the top two lines of your sitemap.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">
All the best.
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steeringman
Joined: Feb 25, 2008
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Posted: 2008-Feb-28 20:50
Yea thanks a lot...
I finally figured it all out and have some good information coming in to my webmaster tools page now.
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