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ukdesi
11-05-2006, 11:37 PM
OK, i've created a google sitemap. I have then uploded the file "sitemap.xml" to my root ulmb directory. However an error comes from google saying
"Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit"
It is in the .xml format so i can't see what is wrong?
I was thinking maybe its because that screen comes up saying please wait 60seconds to download file on visiting the url?! Is there no way to prevent this as i really need to submit my sitemap?!
EDITED
No worries i did not know that you could submit the sitemap in .html format, well it seems to have worked anyways!!
keith
11-06-2006, 09:50 AM
Oh, no wonder, I received the same problem too. I, too, received the same error, and thought it might be Google at fault.... So, I see it's the restriction from here :)

can we allow .xml?
Tyler
11-06-2006, 02:33 PM
.xml files are allowed, but we do not allow hotlinking. The 60 second wait comes up if you hotlink.
keith
11-06-2006, 03:27 PM
erm... does that means Google Sitemap won't be able to work? **just asking**
Tyler
11-06-2006, 04:43 PM
The person above stated that it works for them.
zoyeb
12-09-2006, 04:51 PM
Doesn't work for me

"Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit."


Same with the Google robots.txt analysis, "robots.txt file does not appear to be valid", Then it shows the html code

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<title>Download robots.txt</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"><!--
function docountdown(){
s_div = document.getElementById("dldiv");
count = count - 1;

if (count > 0){
s_div.innerHTML = "Your request to download robots.txt is being processed.<"+"p>Please Wait... ("+count+" seconds remaining)<"+"/p>";
setTimeout("docountdown();", 1000);
} else {
s_div.innerHTML = "Your file is ready for download.<"+"p><"+"a href=\"/robots.txt?\">Click here to Download File<"+"/a><"+"/p>";
}
}

var count = 60;
window.onload = docountdown;
--></script>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-2927823587298693";
google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "336699";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "0000FF";
google_color_url = "008000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<br /><br />
<table border="0" width="500">
<tr>
<td>
<fieldset style="padding: 2">
<legend>Download robots.txt</legend>
<br />
<div id="dldiv">
Your request to download robots.txt is being processed.<p>Please Wait...</p>
</div>
<br />
</fieldset>
<p>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-2927823587298693";
google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "336699";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "0000FF";
google_color_url = "008000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>
</body>
</html>
keith
12-09-2006, 06:00 PM
The person above stated that it works for them.

He submitted that in .html format. How is that possible with Google sitemap plugin?
zoyeb
12-11-2006, 07:55 PM
I hope they fix this