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I redid the sitemap and just made them xml, Andreas.  It hasn't seemed to help.  Still not getting indexed.  I don't know where you were seeing that information in the sitemap files.  Can you tell me how you opened them to see that?  All I see is the normal content.

Shawn

Maybe I need to change them to plain xml files and update the index file?

Where are you seeing the error?  I am opening them and see all the content required.  I am confused.  I don't think I have a key field in the sitemaps.

Hi,

We have a sitemap on AWS that is retrievable via a url that looks like ours http://sitemap.shipindex.org/sitemap.xml.  We have notified Google it exists and it found our 700k urls (we are a database of ship citations with unique urls).  However, it will not index them.  It has been weeks and nothing.  The weird part is that it did do some of them before, it said so, about 26k.  Then it said 0.  Now that I have redone the sitemap, I can't get google to look at it and I have no idea why.  This is really important to us, as we want not just general keywords to find our front page, but we also want specific ship names to show links to us in results.  Does anyone have any clues as to how to get Google's attention and index our sitemap?  Or even just crawl more of our site?  It has done 35k pages crawling, but stopped.