Sitemap not valid

hackerart · Post by **hackerart** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:52 pm

When I try
http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/?l ... map.xml.gz or http://www.validome.org/google/validate ... ng=ge&goog
leTyp=SITEMAP

I get a message "Es wurde keine XML-Deklaration gefunden." or "Das Dokument ist nicht valide."

Did I something wrong or is there a bug?

chickens · Post by **chickens** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:17 pm

I suggest using google's webmaster tools to tell them where the sitemap is and you can also see quite a bit more info while there.
https://www.google.com/webmasters

If you have never seen these tools before they are quite handy.

hackerart · Post by **hackerart** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:14 pm

Which tools do you mean, I am registered because of the api-key, but I didn't find other tools, which I may think, that they are useful for me, but maybe I overlooked something.

chickens · Post by **chickens** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:36 pm

bah, google isn't accepting the https for that URL. Try this one - http://www.google.com/webmasters/

If that still does not work just use google to find itself
http://www.google.com/search?q=webmaster+tools

You can read more about these tools on the google blog
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. ... wl-of.html

More info on sitemaps also on that blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. ... tocol.html

In general, the sitemap validators are not checking for the correct format as per http://sitemaps.org . The plugin in serendipity is correct as far as this standard is concerned. The issue is the fact that this standard is less than a month old and therefore all of the validators have not caught up yet. The old format will still work for google, but all of the other major engines will not use it.

hackerart · Post by **hackerart** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:34 pm

Thank you for this info. Is it posstible to add the "google-metatag" for identification somewhere in the configuration of s9y. I identified by html-file and even this was a little bit tricky, because the file could not be displayed and I was redirected to the blog. I renamed the dir of the blog for a short time, added the old-dirname and added the google-html-file. After identification I renamed the blog again.

chickens · Post by **chickens** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:59 pm

the "HTML-Code inside head (HTML-Head Nugget)" plugin works great for this. Make sure to lowercase the word META in google's tag so that it continues to be valid xHTML. Also make sure you edit the HTML version of the page and not using a wysiwyg editor. If you are using the editor the text shows up, as where you want it to be hidden.

proper code

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<metaname="verify-v1" content="long_google_code_here" />