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    • GoldenRanking14
      GoldenRanking14 last edited by

      Hello I'm a seo newbie and some help from the community here would be greatly appreciated.

      I have submitted the sitemap of my website in google webmasters tools and now I got this warning:

      "When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted."

      How do I fix this? What should I do?

      Many thanks in advance.

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      • BlueprintMarketing
        BlueprintMarketing last edited by

        You need to confirm that the URLs are in fact 100% of your URLs going into the site map are accessible.

        if it's a big issue in a big site send me the URL in a private message I will use deep crawl to create a XML sitemap for you. The screaming frog tool is excellent as well though does performance well with extremely large sites.

        check your robots.txt file this so great tool if in case you have more than one (it happens)

        http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/

        or

        http://tools.seochat.com/tools/robots-txt-validator/

        so many great free tools are found right here http://tools.seochat.com/tools/

        It could be a number of things although it could be Google being finicky. Run the site through Moz crawler, use feedthebot.com using "tools SEO" or download the free version of http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/  this will tell you if there is an issue. If your site is static you can even create an alternate site map with screaming frog if your site is large use deep crawl or Moz analytics

        be certain there are no sitemaps redirecting to each other so no redirects going from the old site map to the new site map. Make certain that the site map is in an XML format e.g.  http://example.com/sitemap.xml or if in a different format like https://example.com/sitemap_index.xml make sure the proper format That resolves when you look at the site map is what is going into Webmaster tools. Be certain the site map does not contain over 500 URLs per the site map so example.com/sitemap1.xml and so on keep  numbering them appropriately. sometimes Google is overloaded and does not seem to like to play well with certain site maps or the site map is maybe not generating very well on the server and that is fixed later on. If this is a long-term problem speak to your host or developer. My recommendation is if you've done everything I have talked about that you attempt to submit is the sitemap to to Webmaster tools or  simply build a new sitemap and submit that.

        so if worse comes to worse take the screaming frog and use this URL to send it to Google

        http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/business-owner/

        I hope that helps,

        Thomas

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        • Leonie-Kramer
          Leonie-Kramer last edited by

          Hi, It looks like you have url's placed in your sitemap that have an HTTP status error. You can search for the urls and remove them from your sitemap or make sure they have the right status. Does it say which status error? And does it say which url's? Did you check those url's?When you use Screaming frog spider tool (free), you can search for status error's this is an easy way to find these url's.

          Grtz, Leonie

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