This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit.

Hello,
I just made the changes suggested in this thread with the exception that I added the group discussion post to the sitemap, I then deleted the whole data file in the ftp, and uploaded a new one, chmodded it to 777.

vBSEO Sitemap Generator : Quality vs Quantity

I built the sitemap via schedualed task, submitted and yesterday, today I see a red X on my google webmaster tools page for the sitemaps.
I dig down and it says it's my first sitemap, line 187,647 and when I mouse over that URL, it shows google.com/blogs/ ?
Do you know what I did, how I can fix this?

here is a screenshot



thx

If you're not using the blog service, you need to disable blogs from being included. The actual url being included is http://blogs/

Thanks for the reply Brian.

I'd like to include our blogs though, they were included before I made the change marco suggested, am I missing something?

We have the vbulletin blog setup.

If you are using it, it should include correctly. Try clearing out all the xml.gz files and re-generating manually.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

If you are using it, it should include correctly. Try clearing out all the xml.gz files and re-generating manually.

I did that twice last night before posting this... (I'll try it again 3rd time)
Can you think of any other options?

(edit.. still showing a red X,, guess I'll just remove the blogs from the sitemap... Wish it would work like it should.... or like it did before I made the changes)

well I'm still getting this damn red X error, saying something about http://blogs/
even though I have none of the blog settings selected.
Guess I'll just go back to the way I had it.

what a great way to waste 3 days messing with a sitemap..

Thx anyways Brian for trying to help.

well crap, I setup exactly how I had it before, and I'm still getting the http://blogs/ error :( FML


*sorry for all the edits to this post, I didn't see a need to keep hitting reply*

I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going on, I downloaded my sitemap and looked at the line that webmaster tools says is giving the http://blogs/ url, this is the line before, the line, and the one after according to webmaster tools.

Code:

<url>
  <loc>http://general-forums.com/t40/</loc>
  <priority>0.424</priority>
  <lastmod>2010-07-08T01:02:28+00:00</lastmod>
  <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
  <loc>http://general-forums.com/t469/</loc>
  <priority>0.4928</priority>
  <lastmod>2010-07-08T01:02:28+00:00</lastmod>
  <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
  <loc>http://general-forums.com/t470/</loc>
  <priority>0.4922</priority>
  <lastmod>2010-07-08T01:02:28+00:00</lastmod>
  <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
</url>

red is the exact line webmaster tools is saying there is an error.
hope this helps, I'm really getting frustrated with it to say the least..


Sitemap errors and warnings
Line Status Details
Errors 187755
Invalid URL
This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit.
URL:
http:///blogs/
Parent tag: url
Tag: loc
Problem detected on: Jul 8, 2010

webmaster tools is not real time. it may take a few days for the NEW sitemap to be loaded in, even though it states it loaded today.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

webmaster tools is not real time. it may take a few days for the NEW sitemap to be loaded in, even though it states it loaded today.

see I thought the same thing, but when it was coming back with the red X right away, it made me wonder.
okay, I'll let it sit like this a few days, and hope for the best

thx again

When that is the case you can go into each individual file and hit resubmit.

Originally Posted by Michael Biddle

When that is the case you can go into each individual file and hit resubmit.

yes I know and I tried that, was still getting the red X

I'm going to give it another day or two, the red X is still showing
and I have tons of Crawl errors ATM...

yet another day that it's still messed up... :(
maybe I'll just remove it altogether

I'm just going to remove the sitemap plugin altogether for a week and try adding it again
wish someone could figure out what changed :|
why would it try to add http://blogs/ when a) we have the vb blog b) it worked fine before

You appear to still be on RC2. you shold upgrade to 3.5.1 asap.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

You appear to still be on RC2. you shold upgrade to 3.5.1 asap.

I thought I grabbed the files out of the download section, do you mean update the sitemap script, or the vbseo script?
thanks for the help Brian

Hi,

He is referring to the vBSEO core files, the sitemap is only on Beta2 stage at the moment so hasn't even reached RC1 stage.

Based on your sites footer copyright though "Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.5.0 RC2" you are using 3.5.0 RC2 you should upgrade to 3.5.1 ASAP.

Ceri

I've updated vbseo, added the sitemap again
now I get another error..

Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.
Tag: html
Problem detected on: Jul 12, 2010

you can see the sitemap isn't html
http://general-forums.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

suggestions?