RE: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Wittenbergh Sent: 01 November 2009 23:05 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help > Because that file is being served as &#

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

How I love this community! I haven't solved my problems yet, but based on the comments and ideas I've gathered in the past few days, the site has improved substantially. This latest comment from Philippe... On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Because that file is being

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

> Because that file is being served as 'text/html' instead of 'text/xml' as it > should. That is server misconfiguration. I'm not surprised Googlebot doesn't > pick it up. yes, quite right, unfortunately, I don't think I can get the CMS to serve it correctly as xml, however google digested it happ

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Adam Smith wrote: Swami; I'll hazard a guess here and assume you're using Firefox; and you've done what I did and gone tohttp://maps.unimelb.edu.au/sitemap.xml , seen a mass of test on screen Because that file is being served as 'text/html' instead of 'text/xml'

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

Actually, I think you're both right! Swami; I'll hazard a guess here and assume you're using Firefox; and you've done what I did and gone to http://maps.unimelb.edu.au/sitemap.xml, seen a mass of test on screen and saved the file to be confronted with: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

ahh - no. I did change some stuff on the site, but not the xml file - I suspect whatever you were looking at it with the first time had to put the html tags around it just to make sense of it. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Swami Neelamber wrote: > Sorry Hassan! It would seem it's been change

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

Sorry Hassan! It would seem it's been changed. Andrew's been beavering away, as one does. His original "XML" file I downloaded from the same URI as you did: < http://maps.unimelb.edu.au/sitemap.xml>, right onto my desktop (it's still there), and I believe I probably did that a number of hours bef

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

Swami Neelamber wrote: I'm not totally sure about that you've used top and bottom of your *sitemap.xml* file? Don't know what you're looking at but there are no such tags in the document at -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webt

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

Bother! that last reply was supposed to be off list! Oh well, the discussion had got around to web standards by that point, so it's fair game. ...and it's a friday afternoon, cut me some slack!! Thanks to all those who have replied off list. By way of reporting back to the list, I'll say... 1) S

Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help

Craig, OK - that's a really interesting comment. I had, as far as I knew, used the right formatting, the sitemap validates as XML and Google's webmaster tools accepted it as a valid feed (after a few tweaks!) I followed this document, which I understand is the definitive source. http://www.sitema