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Google sitemap warning messages

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:05 am
by deminy
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Sitemap warnings for http://www.deminy.net/index.rss2
Line:
15
Incorrect namespace
Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace.


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Schema validating with XSV 2.10-1 of 2005/04/22 13:10:49
(Target: http://www.deminy.net/index.rss2)
http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv?d ... &style=xsl#

Re: Google sitemap warning messages

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:14 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!

Where do you get those Sitemap warnings? In your RSS file I can't find any 'sitemap'?

2. Yes, for virtually every RSS-feed the namespaces are not actual schemas but simply URL placeholders. The API does not require valid schema resources, and I think there are none to refer to?

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:14 pm
by deminy
Hi,

I added my blog's RSS feeds as sitemaps to Google Sitemap. That's a warning message in Google Sitemap: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

It would be nice if no any warning message shown up.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:21 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!

Uhm, I don't think you can add your RSS feed to google sitemap?!? You should use the google sitemap serendipity plugin to provide a sitemap?

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:07 pm
by deminy
There are (at least) 2 different ways to provide sitemap to Google from s9y:

* Use use the google sitemap serendipity plugin, as you said. And, this might be the best way, but there is one disadvantage: whatever you posted in s9y would be submitted to Google, even for those posts that you want to keep in private.

* Submit the RSS feed to Google Sitemap:
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... pic=&type=
The problem is, "this method may not let Google know about all the URLs in your site, since the feed may only provide information on recent URLs."

Anyway, the bug I reported here is not a big problem, just a warning message in Google Sitemap, so don't have to be fixed. Thanks.