Sitemap file size error

Hey there

I just updated to latest sitemap, ran it.. with no error. However, i check google webmaster tool today and it gives me this error

Code:

Sitemap file size error
Your Sitemap exceeds the  maximum file size limit. Please create multiple Sitemaps containing  fewer URLs to meet the file size limit.

How do I Fix that.

Hi Hassan,

What do you have the Max URLs in Sitemap setting set too? Note that google will not accept sitemaps that contain more than 50,000 URL's.



Ceri

That option is set to 49990

That is probably because it is too large. If you have long URLs it makes the file size bigger. Try making the value about 35000

I had the same value with vb3. and previous version of sitemap and vbseo. with no error from google.

Anyways i will make changes, and try to resubmit that sitemap and yea i do have long titles.

okay, I changed the value to 35000, google did download the new one.. but showing the same error.
and i also noticed.. that my traffic is keep going down.. ever since I get this error. so please help me out asap.

Thanks

bring it down even more... try 20000

I did but no help... you think deleting all sitemaps from vb3 and remake new ones for vb4 would help ?
Currently google have 11 sitemaps since vb3. I didnt delete sitmaps from older version.

Hi,

Yes when ever you change the settings in a major way like this you should delete all the .xml.gz files in /vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder and then regenerate them from scratch.

Ceri

Okay that works now. However, I used to have a sitemap called " urllist.txt.gz" which I can not find anymore.
May I know what happened to it?

That file wa the yahoo url list it is now depreciated as yahoo have accepted Xml sitemaps for years now...

It was removed in 2.6 beta 2 along with include old URL's

Ceri.

That file wa the yahoo url list it is now depreciated as yahoo have accepted Xml sitemaps for years now...

It was removed in 2.6 beta 2 along with include old URL's

Ceri.