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Hi Dan

Thanks for your answer. Would you really recommend using the plugin instead of just uploading the xml sitemap directly to the website's root directory? If yes why?

Thanks

Hi

when generating sitemap there are 46 URLs detected by xml-sitemaps.com but when adding the sitemap to WMT only 12 get submitted and 5 are indexed which is really kind of worrying me. This might be because of the xml sitemap plugin that I installed. May be something is wrong with my settings(doc attached 1&2)

I am kind of lost especially that SEOmoz hasn't detected any URLs blocked by Robot.txt

It would be great if you could tell me what should I do next ?

Thanks

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Hi Everyone,

I submitted a sitemap within the google webmaster tools and I had a warning message of 38 issues.

Issue: Url blocked by robots.txt.

Description: Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt.

Example: the ones that were given were urls that we don't want them to be indexed: Sitemap: www.example.org/author.xml

Value: http://www.example.org/author/admin/

My issue here is that the number of URL indexed is pretty low and I know for a fact that Robot.txt aren't good especially if they block URL that needs to be indexed. Apparently the URLs that are blocked seem to be URLs that we don't to be indexed but it doesn't display all URLs that are blocked.

Do you think i m having a major problem or everything is fine?What should I do? How can I fix it?

FYI: Wordpress is what we use for our website

Thanks