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@thp wrote:
Just a note on this (I might be wrong – leo?), but in the suggestions in the OP it has url’s that end with “sitemap.xml”
If you are using Yoast you probably won’t have that file. You will have “sitemap_index.xml”
I missed that completely! In that case you’d want to have a sitemap generator up for sure. Perhaps it might be a good bonus for me to have Symbiostock create a small sitemap.xml file which lists all the other sitemaps (between yoast and symbiostock)
Many services look for sitemap.xml by default, even the spiders we’ve never heard of.
So, if I understand correctly, you would have Symbio create “sitemap.xml” which would suck in the data from Yoast’s index file, and also the data from Symbio’s image index file, and combine them together? The benefit being that all spiders could reference the data easily?
If so, sounds good.
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@thp wrote:
So, if I understand correctly, you would have Symbio create “sitemap.xml” which would suck in the data from Yoast’s index file, and also the data from Symbio’s image index file, and combine them together? The benefit being that all spiders could reference the data easily?
If so, sounds good.
Not suck the data – just reference it.
Sitemaps can also be indexes of other sitemaps. We’re talking about an index.
If YOAST does not create a sitemap.xml it might be better just to have the symbiostock sitemap plugin create the index.
@leo wrote:
Try again if you can. Clicking the links you just posted it seems they work fine. If you get any errors simply delete the ones that don’t go through (or correct the errors if its in your ability)
Interesting error on the feedburner one. I might have to add the Image Feed to the top of the header.
I tried a few times, tried researching for some solutions to no avail and tried changing “sitemap.xml” to “sitemap_index.xml” and got the same error messages each time. So far it is proving to be beyond my ability to correct (although I’m not surprised given my limited expertise in this area)
I guess I’ll just pull the ones that are not working while I continue to search for solutions.
@klsbear wrote:
@leo wrote:
Try again if you can. Clicking the links you just posted it seems they work fine. If you get any errors simply delete the ones that don’t go through (or correct the errors if its in your ability)
Interesting error on the feedburner one. I might have to add the Image Feed to the top of the header.
I tried a few times, tried researching for some solutions to no avail and tried changing “sitemap.xml” to “sitemap_index.xml” and got the same error messages each time. So far it is proving to be beyond my ability to correct (although I’m not surprised given my limited expertise in this area)
I guess I’ll just pull the ones that are not working while I continue to search for solutions.
This is really just bonus stuff. You won’t score 100% so don’t worry.
I’ve just enabled this and think I get the same issues. I have Yoast running and so referenced its sitemap. I get:
» http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 was successfully pinged (extended format)
» http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ was successfully pinged (extended format)
» http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/pingSubmit?bloglink=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com could not be pinged. Error message: “parse error. not well formed”
» http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml could not be pinged. Error message: “parse error. not well formed”
» http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – could not open socket”
» http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”
» http://rpc.twingly.com was successfully pinged
» http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm?name=BlogTitle&url=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/sitemap_index.xml was successfully pinged (extended format)
» http://geourl.org/ping?p=http://www.backyardstockphotos.com could not be pinged. Error message: “transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”As far as I can see, the ones I really want – google, bing, ask are the ones that are failing.
Steve
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