Sitemap warning

Can someone give me an idea what this means?

From Google webmaster tools:

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. Help


HTTP Error:
URL: http://www.lampstandstudy.com/forum/20998-post125.html
URL: http://www.lampstandstudy.com/forum/22122-post3.html
Problem detected on:301 (Moved permanently) Help



Aug 21, 2008

Also, my url's indexed in Google has been going down quite a bit lately.

Please try this: Warnings

Ok, I did that. Google shows that my sitemap is "pending". We will see what happens.

Will this help with the issue of my number of indexed pages dropping?

Still getting warnings and only a little over half of my url's are indexed now. Any other ideas?

I got this:

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. Help

What is an example URL reported?

Welcome arthurd - Lampstand Christian Forum Community

I've just submitted your sitemap and got no errors reported:

Format Sitemap Index
Submitted 8 minutes ago
Last downloaded by Google 7 minutes ago
Status OK

Sitemap errors and warnings
No errors or warnings found.

Well how about that then... I guess I no longer have a problem. It's like when you take your car to the mechanic and it quites exhibiting the problem.

Thanks for your help.

You are welcome