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Google Dropping - Sitemaps Error

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Old 05-05-2008, 07:45 AM
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Google Dropping - Sitemaps Error
Hi all,

I was concerned that Google had dropped c200,000 of my indexed pages recently, so I had a look here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

I am no expert but this doesn't look good;
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URLs not followed
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted
In addition, it is asking me to "verify" my site again?? I didn't change anything and it has been fine for 2+ years now....

It would seem that Google and Yahoo are both pulling the sitemaps down every day too but in the Google Webmaster tools it only shows 4 sitemaps...I have 13!

Could someone please help me with any/all of these issues, thanks.
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make sure that you have "Include old URLs" setting disable in vBSEO Sitemap Generator options. If you use "Replace post number link with Permalink " option enabled in vBSEO CP, you should also disable "Include shopost URLs" setting for sitemap generator.
Then remove all sitemap file from vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder and regenerate sitemap and resubmit it to Google.
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Thanks Oleg,
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make sure that you have "Include old URLs" setting disable in vBSEO Sitemap Generator options.
That was already set to "no".
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If you use "Replace post number link with Permalink " option enabled in vBSEO CP, you should also disable "Include shopost URLs" setting for sitemap generator.
I have changed "Include show post pages" to "no"
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Then remove all sitemap file from vbseo_sitemap/data/ folder and regenerate sitemap and resubmit it to Google.
Done and done.

This is the result from my generated report.
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Summary:
============================
Forum Display: 1019
Show Thread: 31302
Show Post:
Member Profiles: 25091
Poll Results:
Archive: 29121

Total Indexed URLs: 86534
Total Processing Time: 24.10 seconds
Does that look ok? What should I expect to see now?
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Yes, please check if you have any further reports from google.
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No warnings or errors on my dashboard now, thanks.
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Great, you are welcome!
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