Hi,
I'm new to web design/construction. I've spent the last several months building my web site for my new company. Now, I'm ready to launch. So I've spent a fair amount of time reading through Google's webmaster conent in an effort to have my site indexed. In doing so, I decided to build an XML sitemap. I uploaded the sitemap - and several days later Google informed me that several of my 49 pages contained 401/407 authentication errors. Appearently, my sitemap incorrectly listed each page name with a trailing "/" (for example, as
www.example.com/Page.html/ instead of
www.example.com/Page.html)
. So I corrected my Sitemap.XML file and resubmitted it ot Google. Now, I'm wiating for Google's next move....and waiting.
Out of fear that my second attempt might also be flawed, I decided to look for a SiteMap validator (which you probably thinking would have been a wise move during PRIOR to my first attempt but like I said, Im new to this). I went to
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. I entered my sitemap address - crossed my fingers - and received feedback that I cannot decipher. The feedback says:
Schema validating with XSV 3.1-1 of 2007/12/11 16:20:05
" Target:
http://www.Thermoporecorp.com/Sitemap.xml (Real name:
http://www.Thermoporecorp.com/Sitemap.xml Length: 8305 bytes
Last Modified: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:02:54 GMT
Server: YTS/1.17.9)
" docElt: {
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}u
rlset
" No declaration for document root found, validation was lax
" The schema(s) used for schema-validation had no errors
" No schema-validity problems were found in the target
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Low-level XML well-formedness and/or validity processing output
Error: Expected whitespace after public id
in unnamed entity at line 1 char 55 of
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/ has no elements???
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Schema resources involved
Attempt to load a schema document from
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 (source: docElt) for
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9, failed:
Can you take a look at my XML file and let me know what corrections I should make to the file?
www.thermoporecorp.com/Sitemap.xmlThanks,
Ken Milam
