Invalid Sitemap Problem - Awaiting your help!

Hi friends,

I have a problem with the sitemaps. I submitted 20 sitemaps to google. All of them mentioned as invalid. This problem started just a month ago. My vbulletin version is 3.6.8

You can check here an see tha problem:

Google Sitemap validation tool. Google Sitemap Checker

http://www.number1forum.com/sitemap_1.xml.gz

http://www.number1forum.com/sitemap_2.xml.gz

http://www.number1forum.com/sitemap_3.xml.gz

............ till

http://www.number1forum.com/sitemap_20.xml.gz

I tried all you mentioned in the threads like 777 for data folder 666 for sitemaps 777 also for sitemaps 666 & 777 for download.dat etc. But nothing changed.

You can find below the error code from sitemap validation result for sitemap_1.xml.gz

XML error: Empty document at line 1
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Any help?

OK. I solved the problem by my self. I decrease the "Specify the maximum number of URLs to be included in each sitemap file." from 16.500 to 10.000 and the problem solved. I mention the solution here because lot of people solved their problems after several messages and just write thanks instead of explaining how they solve it.

Hello,

thank you for the follow-up!

You're welcome Ola.