[Fixed] image sitemap

ablichter · August 15, 2013

Asked this before in "bug reporting" but it seems it's bit abandoned by moderators, manager and heroes at the moment: where can I get a "sitemap-galleryimages" from and when / how often is the normal sitemap recreated?

ablichter · August 20, 2013

ablichter wrote: »

Asked this before in "bug reporting" but it seems it's bit abandoned by moderators, manager and heroes at the moment: where can I get a "sitemap-galleryimages" from and when / how often is the normal sitemap recreated?

Knock, knock. Anybody home and allowed or able to answer this?

ablichter · August 26, 2013

ablichter wrote: »

Knock, knock. Anybody home and allowed or able to answer this?

Ping. Bump. KnockKnock

edsh · August 27, 2013

ablichter wrote: »

Ping. Bump. KnockKnock

I agree, I cant find any sitemap at all.. and that is so bad

Google Webmaster Tools with RSS feed sitemap would be just splendid, BUT smugmug has blocked that access with robots.txt files

SUPPORT: What is the plan for sitemaps so that we can get a good ranking on SEO?

ablichter · August 28, 2013

ablichter wrote: »

Asked this before in "bug reporting" but it seems it's bit abandoned by moderators, manager and heroes at the moment: where can I get a "sitemap-galleryimages" from and when / how often is the normal sitemap recreated?

Sitemaps are updated every 7 days.

richpepp · August 28, 2013

I agree, I cant find any sitemap at all.. and that is so bad

You should already have a sitemap - just add '/sitemap-index.xml' to the end of your standard URL. That gives you a link to a second file that contains links to all your galleries. The galleryimages one that Jörg refers to still doesn't seem to appear for many people though. However all I did was tell Google Webmaster tools about the /sitemap-index.xml file and it seems to be chewing it's way through it

Rich

mbonocore · August 28, 2013

ablichter wrote: »

Asked this before in "bug reporting" but it seems it's bit abandoned by moderators, manager and heroes at the moment: where can I get a "sitemap-galleryimages" from and when / how often is the normal sitemap recreated?

Check out the Sitemap Thread

WinsomeWorks · August 29, 2013

mbonocore wrote: »

Check out the Sitemap Thread

Basically the same questions are there, but they're not getting answered. 99% of the thread is from prior to the New Smug. A bunch of stuff is evidently different now... People are wanting to know about anything/everything that's changed.

ablichter · August 29, 2013

mbonocore wrote: »

Check out the Sitemap Thread

What For? I had a specific question about a sitemap-file "sitemap-galleryimages" which some of us have, some don't. Even Andy who got one, couldn't or wouldn't answer the question (straight) where it comes from and / or how to get one.

Flounder · August 30, 2013

Hi Jörg

This problem was actually specific for new accounts or migrated accounts not getting updated. A fix for this will be going live very shortly. We are doing some more testing on it.

If you have any questions or problems, please let us know.

Cheers,
Nick Wilson
SmugMug Support Hero

ablichter · August 30, 2013

Flounder wrote: »

Hi Jörg

This problem was actually specific for new accounts or migrated accounts not getting updated. A fix for this will be going live very shortly. We are doing some more testing on it.

If you have any questions or problems, please let us know.

Cheers,
Nick Wilson
SmugMug Support Hero

Hi Flounder
Great to hear.
Thanks for the information about that. Now its clearer and we know that its not a constraint by the new design.
Have a nice weekend.

richpepp · August 30, 2013

ooo, are we getting our "sitemap-galleryimages" back? nice

richpepp · September 1, 2013

clapand there it is, thanks

clap

(for the first of my sites)

mbonocore · September 2, 2013

This was updated, but could take a while to appear for your own site.

Djm3006 · September 2, 2013

mbonocore wrote: »

This was updated, but could take a while to appear for your own site.

Thanks for your work, have a good one

ablichter · September 3, 2013

mbonocore wrote: »

This was updated, but could take a while to appear for your own site.

Yepp, was updated today here as well.
Thanks.

southeasternphotography · September 14, 2013

Not Fixed????
If fixed, then why does mine say this?

<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd">
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-base.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-09-10T10:59:05-07:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

ablichter · September 15, 2013

southeasternphotography wrote: »

If fixed, then why does mine say this?
[...]

I checked five legacy and five new SM sites. Zero sitemap-galleryimages.xml on the legacy sites, all new sites had it.
If it ever was available for legacy sites, they only fixed it for new SM. Sorry.

Flounder wrote: »

This problem was actually specific for new accounts or migrated accounts not getting updated

southeasternphotography · September 15, 2013

ablichter wrote: »

I checked five legacy and five new SM sites. Zero sitemap-galleryimages.xml on the legacy sites, all new sites had it.
If it ever was available for legacy sites, they only fixed it for new SM. Sorry.

Ah, well that explains it! Thanks!

JL Photo · September 18, 2013

Google unable to access the robots.txt
Google couldn't crawl your site because we were unable to access the robots.txt file. robots.txt

Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

ablichter · September 18, 2013

JL Photo wrote: »

Google couldn't crawl your site because we were unable to access the robots.txt file. robots.txt

Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

What URL do you try to analyze? For the one in your signature a robots.text exists (without a sitemap mentioned in it), but the site is dead.
If this is your new site http://www.jdleech.com - it should work.

southeasternphotography · November 25, 2013

AM I still having sitemap problems?
I received the following complimentary website evaluation from Register.com where my url is registered:

Website Analysis Complete
ANALYSIS FOR: southeasternphotography.com
Analysis Date: 11/25/2013

As a service to you we completed a complimentary diagnostic scan of your website and found some errors in your website setup that can make it difficult for search engines to rank your site. Our experts can help. Please call us today to set up a consultation regarding ranking, making it easier for customers to find your site.

YOUR COMPLIMENTARY WEBSITE ANALYSIS:
Title Tag Keywords Phone Number
Meta Description Email Address Site Map

Does not show here, but it states I have no email address, phone number, or Site Map.

When I use "www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-index.xml", I get the following:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd">
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-base.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:11:05-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-0.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:11:27-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-1.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:11:50-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-10.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:15:01-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-2.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:12:15-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-3.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:12:37-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-4.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:12:58-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-5.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:13:19-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-6.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:13:40-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-7.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:14:05-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-8.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:14:22-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
http://www.southeasternphotography.com/sitemap-galleryimages-9.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2013-11-22T08:14:43-08:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

It appears that I DO have a Site Map with Index AND Gallerimages listed. Wonder why I have so many galleryimages files? I do have over 20,000 images on the site. They are correct that I do not have phone number or email address listed on the site.

But why is it that Register.com can not seem to find my smugmug sitemap? THat bothers me quite a bit! Any suggestions as to what is happening here?

rainforest1155 · November 26, 2013

Your sitemap is working just fine and for anyone that knows where to look, is's listed at the bottom of your robots.txt file for any search engine crawler to see.

I'm not familiar with your domain registrar, but it could be some sort of upsell scheme or it might be a generic message of sorts. For questions on their message, I can only recommend that you get in touch with your registrar directly.

Yes, if you have a lot of publicly available photos, the sitemap gets larger. That's quite normal.

[Fixed] image sitemap

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