I see /sitemap-base.xml.gz and /sitemap-index.xml for my site, both with green check marks. Before this change I believe there was also an entry for images. I have uploaded new photos and applied keywords since this change was pushed to the live site.
There still appears to be something wrong here - things seem to be moving in the wrong direction.
/sitemap-index.xml is showing with a red x again. Yesterday I resubmitted, and the status flipped to a green check mark. Today the red x is back.
And - the URLs submitted and URLs in web index seem to have stayed at the same values for days in spite of the fact that I have added new galleries, new photos, and keyworded photos.
Seems to imply that there is still a problem somewhere. Can you help?
There still appears to be something wrong here - things seem to be moving in the wrong direction.
/sitemap-index.xml is showing with a red x again. Yesterday I resubmitted, and the status flipped to a green check mark. Today the red x is back.
And - the URLs submitted and URLs in web index seem to have stayed at the same values for days in spite of the fact that I have added new galleries, new photos, and keyworded photos.
Seems to imply that there is still a problem somewhere. Can you help?
--- Denise
I had the same today, I resubmited the index and its OK now. Worth a try if you haven't already
still no change in the contents of the sitemap index, yet the lastmod date was only yesterday. If the contents of the sitemap-base has changed, should the galleries and image sitemaps have been generated by now?
I resubmitted it yesterday, was fine after the resubmission - but it switched back to a red x this morning.
Interesting. I didn't resubmit again yesterday but this morning the red x is gone, back to a green check. Given that things are switching between available and not available and given that I have uploaded photos since the last update of the numbers I still find it interesting that the numbers shown are not changing at all. And by the way they are much much lower than they were before the change.
Interesting. I didn't resubmit again yesterday but this morning the red x is gone, back to a green check. Given that things are switching between available and not available and given that I have uploaded photos since the last update of the numbers I still find it interesting that the numbers shown are not changing at all. And by the way they are much much lower than they were before the change.
--- Denise
Hi Denise,
It looks like your sitemaps have been re-generated now. I validated the XML and all the urls too. Usually when I the sitemaps in this status, its just a matter of waiting for Google to get the webmaster stats updated. But, I can safely say that Google is fetching and processing your sitemaps at this time. We just need Google to finish doing their side of things.
still no change in the contents of the sitemap index, yet the lastmod date was only yesterday. If the contents of the sitemap-base has changed, should the galleries and image sitemaps have been generated by now?
It looks like your sitemaps have been re-generated now. I validated the XML and all the urls too. Usually when I the sitemaps in this status, its just a matter of waiting for Google to get the webmaster stats updated. But, I can safely say that Google is fetching and processing your sitemaps at this time. We just need Google to finish doing their side of things.
Thanks for checking Greg.
Things do look better, but I am still seeing a red X for /sitemap-images.xml.gz. Is that a google catch-up type of thing, or is there still something odd going on?
Screen grab below is from just a minute ago.
I just resubmitted that entry as a sitemap, so I guess I'll see tomorrow if anything changes.
Things do look better, but I am still seeing a red X for /sitemap-images.xml.gz. Is that a google catch-up type of thing, or is there still something odd going on?
Screen grab below is from just a minute ago.
I just resubmitted that entry as a sitemap, so I guess I'll see tomorrow if anything changes.
--- Denise
I am going to guess its in the same ballpark as "Google Catchup", but can you give me a screenshot of what you see when you click the one with the red X? It should show us the error when you do that.
I am going to guess its in the same ballpark as "Google Catchup", but can you give me a screenshot of what you see when you click the one with the red X? It should show us the error when you do that.
It showed a 404 error before I resubmitted. I am still seeing the red x on the upper level entry but now when I drill down there is no longer a red x showing.
I'll let you know what happens tomorrow - if it's a catch up thing then I'll assume the red x on the upper level should be gone tomorrow. Fingers crossed...
If it showing a 404 error, it may take more time for that to disappear. But, I think its working okay - because it says there are 8,943 URLs in that sitemap file. Obviously if it was not able to fetch it (which is what the 404 would be) it would not know how many URLs were in it. I'm thinking that the 404 error is probably just an old error and will flush out of their system eventually (though probably more then a day, but I will keep my fingers crossed too).
....because it says there are 8,943 URLs in that sitemap file. Obviously if it was not able to fetch it (which is what the 404 would be) it would not know how many URLs were in it. I'm thinking that the 404 error is probably just an old error and will flush out of their system eventually (though probably more then a day, but I will keep my fingers crossed too).
Greg -
Showing all green today, although it looks like it will possibly take quite a while to show anything in the index. Yes, I know, that's Google, not smug!
Right now the report shows what is probably a reasonable number of URLs submitted but not that many in web index. And all of those in the web index are in /sitemap-base.xml.gz. No entries in the images or galleries sitemaps. Does that sound normal to you?
Greg -
Showing all green today, although it looks like it will possibly take quite a while to show anything in the index. Yes, I know, that's Google, not smug!
Right now the report shows what is probably a reasonable number of URLs submitted but not that many in web index. And all of those in the web index are in /sitemap-base.xml.gz. No entries in the images or galleries sitemaps. Does that sound normal to you?
Thanks!
--- Denise
Yeah, that sounds okay for now. I should point out that even though Webmaster Tools says there is nothing indexed - there probably are. The only real way to know for sure is to do one of the various google searches (site:..., etc) to see what is actually in their index. Most of my sites show a very small number (according to Webmaster Tools), but have an enormous number of pages that are actually in the index. I wish Webmaster Tools was more precise on this...
I am very sorry, but I would ask the distinguished audience to see, how this is done by Google on Blogger.com (the example blog of Denise Goldberg):
I'm a bit confused here - all you are showing is the feed to my blog. We are talking about sitemaps on our smug sites here, not just a feed. Yes, there is a feed on my blog, and there are feeds on my smug site too - those feeds have been there for a long, long time. Feeds are not a site map.
Yeah, that sounds okay for now. I should point out that even though Webmaster Tools says there is nothing indexed - there probably are.
The numbers are continuing to improve - looks like a waiting game for now. I have done site searches in google, and you're right, there are more pages shown there then in Webmaster tools.
Please look at the last line of Your file robots.txt:
sitemap = feed
All that shows is the last 25 posts to my blog. I suppose that could be viewed as helpful, but honestly, you can see the last 25 posts by just reading my blog, or by browsing the contents of the side bar. The most useful aspect of the feed is to allow people to subscribe so they don't need to look for new entries, the new entries come to them.
In my opinion a blog is very different from a set of galleries. I want my photos and galleries to be found - and not necessarily in last entered / modified sequence. A feed doesn't do that. I want people to be able to find sets of blog posts easily as well, and that's why I sometimes assign labels to my posts.
What do you think a site map should be? I would argue that (just) a feed is not good enough, yet that's what you seem to be proposing.
I've returned. I've been moved into a new position in my day job and haven't had enough time to monitor this as closely for a couple weeks.
Here it is - until today everything looked fine - when I looked. Today I looked and saw that my sitemap is being submitted fine, but that there are zero (0) urls in my web index. ???
A positive note - today I searched while not logged in to google and saw that after 2.5 months, if I search against my business name, my site comes up 4th in the search results. Much better.
Still have a green check and a good robots.txt crawl as well.
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Can you confirm what should be listed under Sitemap on the https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitemap-list?.... page?
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
/sitemap-index.xml is showing with a red x again. Yesterday I resubmitted, and the status flipped to a green check mark. Today the red x is back.
And - the URLs submitted and URLs in web index seem to have stayed at the same values for days in spite of the fact that I have added new galleries, new photos, and keyworded photos.
Seems to imply that there is still a problem somewhere. Can you help?
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
I had the same today, I resubmited the index and its OK now. Worth a try if you haven't already
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And honestly I don't believe we should need to resubmit every day (or even every week). Something still feels wrong here.
--- Denise
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You don't. Let Twoofy reply, he will. Thanks.
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thats good, but when!?
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Hi Denise,
It looks like your sitemaps have been re-generated now. I validated the XML and all the urls too. Usually when I the sitemaps in this status, its just a matter of waiting for Google to get the webmaster stats updated. But, I can safely say that Google is fetching and processing your sitemaps at this time. We just need Google to finish doing their side of things.
- Greg
I am surprised by this too. I'll have an answer for you on Monday.
- Greg
Things do look better, but I am still seeing a red X for /sitemap-images.xml.gz. Is that a google catch-up type of thing, or is there still something odd going on?
Screen grab below is from just a minute ago.
I just resubmitted that entry as a sitemap, so I guess I'll see tomorrow if anything changes.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
I am going to guess its in the same ballpark as "Google Catchup", but can you give me a screenshot of what you see when you click the one with the red X? It should show us the error when you do that.
- Greg
I'll let you know what happens tomorrow - if it's a catch up thing then I'll assume the red x on the upper level should be gone tomorrow. Fingers crossed...
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
- Greg
I do not understand what you mean. The sitemaps are generated automatically. Can you elaborate?
- Greg
OK - thanks.
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Showing all green today, although it looks like it will possibly take quite a while to show anything in the index. Yes, I know, that's Google, not smug!
Right now the report shows what is probably a reasonable number of URLs submitted but not that many in web index. And all of those in the web index are in /sitemap-base.xml.gz. No entries in the images or galleries sitemaps. Does that sound normal to you?
Thanks!
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
Yeah, that sounds okay for now. I should point out that even though Webmaster Tools says there is nothing indexed - there probably are. The only real way to know for sure is to do one of the various google searches (site:..., etc) to see what is actually in their index. Most of my sites show a very small number (according to Webmaster Tools), but have an enormous number of pages that are actually in the index. I wish Webmaster Tools was more precise on this...
- Greg
Hello,
Should be good to go now. Here is your current sitemap-index:
[HTML]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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.snrmac.com/sitemap-base.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2011-01-10T08:52:13Z</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.snrmac.com/sitemap-galleries.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2011-01-10T08:55:00Z</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.snrmac.com/sitemap-images.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2011-01-10T09:01:53Z</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>
[/HTML]
- Greg
thanks for your help!
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blog - http://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com/ ;
file robots.txt - http://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com/robots.txt ;
sitemap - http://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated (just feed).
P.S. And there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
What are you trying to say here?
--- Denise
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Thanks again.
--- Denise
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Really?
Please look at the last line of Your file robots.txt:
sitemap = feed
In my opinion a blog is very different from a set of galleries. I want my photos and galleries to be found - and not necessarily in last entered / modified sequence. A feed doesn't do that. I want people to be able to find sets of blog posts easily as well, and that's why I sometimes assign labels to my posts.
What do you think a site map should be? I would argue that (just) a feed is not good enough, yet that's what you seem to be proposing.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
Please compare:
1.
- http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=site:denisegoldberg.com&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi (12 results)
- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site%3Adenisegoldberg.com (About 18,200 results)
indexed images / indexed pages = 0,0007
and
2.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=site:denisegoldberg.blogspot.com/&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi (About 139 results)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site%3Adenisegoldberg.blogspot.com%2F (About 283 results)
indexed images / indexed pages = 0.49
Sitemap is not an end in itself, but only one of the means to improve the indexing of sites.
Here it is - until today everything looked fine - when I looked. Today I looked and saw that my sitemap is being submitted fine, but that there are zero (0) urls in my web index. ???
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