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Google sitemap guidelines

January 7, 2009

Ever since Google introduced sitemaps,it  set  very strict guidelines in the making of a sitemap. For your sitemap (which ever format it be) to receive no error, always make sure that : It contains only URL’s of all pages(URL’s for individual images should not be submitted) or list of other sitemaps. Even if individual image [...]

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Google version of explaining robots.txt timeout sitemap error

January 6, 2009

In one of my previous posts I described what could be the cause for the above problem. Now Google has its own definition for this. Whenever Googlebot crawls a site it first looks for the robots.txt file to get the information about the blocked URL’s. If your server was down at that instant, Googlebot just [...]

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Sitemap.xml error URL timeout:robots.txt timeout

January 4, 2009

I recently came across this error when I logged onto my webmaster tools.I searched the web to find out the solution and finally I did solve the problem. But how? Some say this is a Google bot’s bug Some say there is a problem from your webhost who are blocking Googlebot using a firewall. While [...]

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xml-sitemap error, make sure the file exists and is writable

December 18, 2008

If you got the above message when trying to implement the XML sitemap, then you have the solution here. I’m not touching the plugin installation part here as it is very well described by the plugin owner arne brachhold. ‘Make sure the file exists and is writable’.If we go by the sentence, we clearly understand [...]

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