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  • G4G
    Corporal

    • Jul 2006
    • 13

    SE's cannot read sitemap

    In trying to submit my sitemap to Google, Yahoo and Bing, none of them seems to be able to read my site.
    Bing cannot read the files to authenticate me as the legit owner of my site.
    Yahoo has my url listed, but only for my homepage and the title they display definitely never came from my homepage.
    Google claims my sitemap is in an unsupported format.

    To try and identify the problem I uploaded the necessary files to a free webhosting service and resubmitted...
    It worked fine - Bing authenticated me and Google accepted my sitemap no prob.

    I believe the problem is somewhere on Vodahost - a firewall setting or something. THis seems to agree with the fact that WSFTP and SmartFTP software don't work with my site either, only Filezilla does.

    Can anyone help?

    Pieter de Waal
    www.gladiatorsforgod.com
  • Karen Mac
    General

    • Apr 2006
    • 8332

    #2
    Re: SE's cannot read sitemap

    Upload it the same way as you did the free host or whatever. And make sure you give google the CORRECT location

    Karen

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    • G4G
      Corporal

      • Jul 2006
      • 13

      #3
      Re: SE's cannot read sitemap

      Google locates the file. It claims "unsupported format", but when I upload the same file to another host, it accepts it fine.

      The problem is not the file format or the location info!

      Thanks for trying.
      _____________
      Pieter de Waal
      www.gladiatorsforgod.com

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      • Karen Mac
        General

        • Apr 2006
        • 8332

        #4
        Re: SE's cannot read sitemap

        Then i suspect you have an error somewhere in your google account.

        Karen

        VodaHost

        Your Website People!
        1-302-283-3777 North America / International
        02036089024 / United Kingdom
        291916438 / Australia

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        Web Hosting - Unlimited disk space & bandwidth.

        Reseller Hosting - Start your own web hosting business.

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        • G4G
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          • Jul 2006
          • 13

          #5
          Re: SE's cannot read sitemap

          Yes, it is either Vodahost or it is Google and Yahoo and Microsoft.
          I am investigating all options.

          Thanks
          _______________
          Pieter
          www.gladiatorsforgod.com


          "To err is human, to forgive is divine, but to really stuff things up you need a computer."

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