Following Sitemap error:

After running the site generator for the first time, I get the following error when I click the link

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

http://board.rapmusic.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

I had paid VBSEO to install it, not sure what was not done or if we need to set different permissions.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hello Jeff, That is how it should be.

doh!

ok

thanks

haha

after submitting it to google its says the following error:

Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit. Help

What sitemap were you submitting?

Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://board.rapmusic.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

I just submitted the above one and it all worked correctly except I have a different problem. You now have Too many Sitemaps on your sitemap_index. I will forward this issue to Oleg.

ok thanks

Hello Jeff,

You are going to need to change your sitemap settings a bit. Find: Max URLs in Sitemap Files in the settings, and change it to 20,000 or so. Then you are going to need to remove all of the .gz files from your vbseo_sitemap/data/ directory on your ftp and regenerate the sitemap. Then go ahead and submit it to your webmaster tools once it has finished generating.

ok did it... this time it only took a few seconds


[SECTION START] tags [8,270.9Kb mem used] [161,881s (+159,300s)]
[create sitemap file] filename: sitemap_4331.xml.gz, number of urls: 7515 [8,321.6Kb mem used] [161,884s (+4s)]
[create sitemap in text format] part #4331 [8,321.5Kb mem used] [161,884s (+0s)]
[create sitemap index] filename: sitemap_index.xml.gz, number of sitemaps: 4331 [9,567.3Kb mem used] [161,884s (+0s)]
Sitemap has been created. Click here to return [8,052.8Kb mem used] [161,886s (+2s)]

When I resubmit the link to google it says:

Your Google Sitemap Index URL: http://board.rapmusic.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz




General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

Did you apply the suggestion posted above? Following Sitemap error:
Looks like you still have more than 1,000 sitemaps in index.

yeah - i changed it to 20k

let me double check

Did you remove all of the .gz files in the data directory? It should have taken quite a bit longer then a few seconds.

you may want to consider NOT including some sections.

I only export threads, blogs (if you have vb blog), and tags. nothing more.