Chris,
verification is NOT a required step to use Google sitemap, they will still be downloaded and parsed by google without a verification.
It just gives you more details for crawling stats (unreachable pages, http errors and similar).
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Chris,
verification is NOT a required step to use Google sitemap, they will still be downloaded and parsed by google without a verification.
It just gives you more details for crawling stats (unreachable pages, http errors and similar).
Oleg Ignatiuk / Crawlability Inc.
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My solution, posted above, was to turn off vbseo, do the verification, and turn it back on. The "Redirect to 404 page" did not work for me. Being on a shared host I am not sure how the header codes are sent.
mine works fine with no problems
Removing .htaccess and turning off vbSEO didn't work at all, What can I do to fix it? Where do I put my (uploaded) file if my domain is http://forum.xleagues.net No matter what I do google will not verify!!!