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xml.gz verses just the xml sitemap

2008-12-01T15:26:13Z

My site host generates both the google_sitemap.xml and
google_sitemap.xml.

Does it matter which one I use or is one better than the other? I
noticed that the xml.gz is not able to be viewed or changed..

My site is d-rust-it.com

best regards

home page url

2008-12-01T03:37:21Z

my associate has set up home page on our website as
thebestfurniture.com.au/index for natural listing purposes I wanted
something like thebestfurniture.com.au/furnit ure or maybe
thebestfurniture.com.au/home-f urniture. my associate seems to think
this page has to be /index and I amwondering if this is so and/or

google indexed 0 urls from my sitemap

2008-11-28T17:01:27Z

hey,
my website is actually a search engine which has no links except these
kind of links:
[link].

i've uploaded a sitemap file containing 514 links in the above style
(e.g:"[link]")

and google didn't index any of them, and this is what it says on my

Need Site Map Help

2008-11-28T16:00:28Z

I'm finaly made a site map uploaded but can'g figure out what I did
wrong. Can someome help please.

My web page is [link]

The error that comes up is

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and

Invalid XML attribute. The XML attribute of this tag was not recognized. ?

2008-11-28T12:49:44Z

I use the Google owned Blogger as a platform for my blog "
[link] " for my sitemap I use the
RSS feed which is automatically generated by Blogger. This has worked
fine until now because I am getting 6 sitemap errors that say "Invalid
XML attribute - The XML attribute of this tag was not recognized.

Creating sitemap - do these fields make a difference?

2008-11-27T16:00:37Z

I just created a sitemap with GSiteCrawler, and one of the options is
to include the fields:

Last modification date
Change frequency
Priority

My question is, do these fields really matter to Google? Should I
include them or take them out?

website is [link]

sitemap is [link]

Sitemap update

2008-11-27T13:53:43Z

We've quite a lagre site with way over 1000 pages - I did our sitemap
back in August and I think it needs updating. Is there an easy way to
do this without trawling throught the files to see which are there and
which aren't? I've recently discovered Xenu which came back with
13,274 URL's surely they don't all need mapping?

indexed pages went away. help

2008-11-25T20:44:09Z

A few months ago i got a webmaster sitemap tools warning that my site
had to many redirects in it. rivercity-entertainment.com was being
redirected to [link]. Upon checking, the
program I'm using thru my hosting company changed the way it was
automatically creating my sitemap to exclude the www. prefix on my

Our site disappeared from the search results

2008-11-25T17:28:46Z

Our site, [link], has for years been on the first page
of search results for hundreds of search terms related to appliance
parts. As of yesterday 11/24, we don't seem to appear in the search
results at all. We think it might be related to having an improper
sitemap file.

Background: On Friday 11/21, we added a large number of html files to

Indexing XML files referenced by AJAX

2008-11-25T07:12:53Z

Hi,

I have an AJAX-driven site ( [link] ) composed of a
main .HTML page that uses AJAX to call a lot of detailed, information-
rich .XML files located on my server.

If the referenced files were .HTML, I'd find a way to create direct
links to them, but as they're flat .XML, there isn't a graceful way to

deleting sitemap file after uploading

2008-11-24T20:44:06Z

i've uploaded a sitemap.txt file in order to let google crawl it an so
on,
can i delete that file from my website after uploading it to google
sitemaps ?
i need to do that because i don't want any hackers etc. to see all the
urls that i have on my webiste .

Network unreachable: DNS issue

2008-11-24T11:12:29Z

We have also been hit by this DNS issue. Our indexed pages have
reduced considerably over the past two weeks. On Nov 19, Webmaster
Tool showed 95 URL Errors on our Sitemaps. Google also dropped our
home page(i.e. [link]) from its index and we lost our hard
earned rankings for
almost all of our home page targeted Keywords. This has affected our

Error in parsing sitemap for Atom Feed - Invalid XML tag

2008-11-24T04:57:00Z

Just recently the webmaster tools have been reporting a error in an
Atom Feed that it use to accept. It reports "Invalid XML tag - This
tag was not recognized" for a div tag whose parent is content.

I believe my format is valid - [link] reports it as
valid. For example, the first example from the atom specification now

Trying to figure out where to start for dynamic sitemap

2008-11-23T17:32:28Z

I hear that uploading a new and current sitemap will cause the
Googlebot to crawl one's website more often.

My content changes daily (I add new dance events and the main query
removes old dance events) but Googlebot only crawls one a month
according to my Webmaster Tools and there is no choice for other

Sitemap generation

2008-11-23T15:56:46Z

We have always had a small hand generated sitemap for our ecomm site
but recently with new site build decided to use an online generator
(Micro-sys A1).

It has created a sitemap with over 30k urls, all from the search
options within the site.

We have 1500 products, so this is about the correct number of search