Google Sitemap Unsupported file format
I am trying to submit this sitemap to Google webmaster tools, and not matter what I do, it tells me its Unsupported file format. Anyone have any ideas what's wrong?
http://designsbyliz.com/sitemap.xml
http://designsbyliz.com/sitemap.xml
ASKER
ok, it is valid now, but i still get the same error in google analytics. very strange
ASKER
i even just made a very small sitemap, with the bare basics of pages and it valid, but google still doesn't like it.
http://www.designsbyliz.com/sitemap_test.xml
http://www.designsbyliz.com/sitemap_test.xml
Change the urlset to
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
Though it is validating for me. Also make sure you have saved it in UTF-8 format and not ANSII
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
Though it is validating for me. Also make sure you have saved it in UTF-8 format and not ANSII
ASKER
can you help tell me why this is coming up invalid now?
http://designsbyliz.com/sitemap.xml.
I have set like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
http://designsbyliz.com/sitemap.xml.
I have set like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
Can you attach your actual sitemap
ASKER
I think i have found out what it is. I have contacted my webhost. I did a fetch as googlebot and see that the site is being blocked from somewhere. I see this:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-type: text/html
<head>
<title>Unauthorized Access</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Your connection to this server has been blocked.</h1>
<p>Something (support will be able to tell you specifics) about your connection to the server was deemed suspicious or abusive.</p>
<p>You need to contact your hosting provider for further information.</p>
<p>Your blocked IP address is <b>x.x.x.x</b></p>
<p>This server's hostname is <b>x.x.x.x.x</b></p>
<p>Please provide the above information when you contact your hosting provider so we can troubleshoot this more efficiently</p>
</body>
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-type: text/html
<head>
<title>Unauthorized Access</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Your connection to this server has been blocked.</h1>
<p>Something (support will be able to tell you specifics) about your connection to the server was deemed suspicious or abusive.</p>
<p>You need to contact your hosting provider for further information.</p>
<p>Your blocked IP address is <b>x.x.x.x</b></p>
<p>This server's hostname is <b>x.x.x.x.x</b></p>
<p>Please provide the above information when you contact your hosting provider so we can troubleshoot this more efficiently</p>
</body>
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It was the robots.txt file that the host had set by default for no robots. Once that cleared out, it took a day or two and then allowed access.
B-) Glad I could help. Thx for the grade and points!
http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/