Google Xml Sitemaps
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Which plugin is good to use to create and submit my sitemap:
sitemap from yoast or google xml sitemap plugin?
Which one is better? I already saw this video but I get an error when I submited it to webmaster tools and I don't know why:http://www.quicksprout.com/university/how-to-set-up-and-optimize-a-sitemap/_''Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.''_Thank you ! -
Hi Sebastian,If you're willing to share the URL, we may be able to troubleshoot. No worries if you can't or want to keep it private, but otherwise it may be hard to diagnose without actually looking at the site/URLs.
Cheers
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Thank You Cyrus,
So If I have already YOAST SEO plugin, I don't need the Plugin Google Xml Sitemaps anymore, I am right? I had 2 sitemaps :)) with mysite.com/sitemap.xml and also with sitemap_index.xml
Also, I deleted both of them, recreated the sitemap with sitemap_indexl.xml submitted to webmaster tools but right now I am getting again an error:
| We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit. | 1 | URL restricted by robots.txt | - | Dec 8, 2013 |
URL RESTRICTED by robots.txt....oh yeah baby....but how? I don't have any robots.txt file uplodaded via ftp or something like that.
please help me:(
thank you !
Best regards,
Sebastian Papp & His Team
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If you're using Wordpress, Yoast is the way to go. It sounds like you're submitting an HTML file to Webmaster tools instead of an XML or other supported format.
The address of a Yoast-generated sitemap is almost always http://example.com/sitemap_index.xml
For example, here's where it is on my personal site: http://cyrusshepard.com/sitemap_index.xml
Additionally, this article may help you troubleshoot: http://yoast.com/xml-sitemap-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/
Best of luck with your SEO!
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Just asking, because maybe we see something, you missed
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on all of my websites I get that error :)) I just launched 20 niche websites on wordpress my friend, I am working to build them for making passive income from adsense and the next year to sale them on flippa for $1000+
I don't think the problem is with the url, I think is something with my yoast or google xml sitemap plugin....I don't know how to solve that error...
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Could you show us the URL with the sitemap?
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thanks for feedback guys but why I am getting this message when I try to submit my sitemap to webmaster tools and how to solve that?
see the photo below:
thank you !
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Hear hear, I agree with Istvan. As Yoast's plugin gives you complete power over you SEO configurations for your WP site I would prefer using that over other plugins.
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Hi Sebastian,
I personally prefer Yoast over Google XML sitemap plugin, because for me Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin does the job for both SEO and sitemap generation. I prefer to reduce the number of plugins I use on wordpress.
This is a personal choice, maybe you will hear other opinions also.
Cheers,
Istvan
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