Hi there, I've been trying to use Google Sitemaps for my blog, but apparently google has errors indexing my blog, the error that I get says that my URLs are inaccessible, but what I found actually was that the so called inaccessible links listed by Google Sitemaps are indeed correct, has anyone using Wordpress tried Google Sitemaps before? If yes what plugin or what method do you use to submit your sitemaps?

Thank you.

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I use this plugin: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/...rator-v2-final

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that's the same one I'm using limcs, how come Google Sitemaps has problem accessing the URLs?

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You mean Google listed the URL problem in Webmaster Central, but in actual the URL is fine and accesssible? That happens to me sometimes but it just goes away over time (after the next crawl). Or you can try email Google Webmaster Support and see.

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Yeah limcs, that's exactly how it is, I've tried resubmitting the sitemap again but the same error occurs again.

Ok I just resubmitted it again, and guess what, same Error again.

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Sigh, there's still something wrong with my sitemap for my blog, Google still says there's an unreachable error, what gives? Any ideas guys?

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have you set your blog to block search engine access... try log into you admin area, click "options" and click "privacy" on sub menu... take a look whether you have block the search engine or not...

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I just checked the options and I did not set it to block search engines, btw I'm using wordpress. Any other possible reasons?

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ya... i using wordpress too but no problem here... its quite tricky to solve this... maybe you can try to use other sitemap generator to generate your sitemap...

i use gsitecrawler.com to generate google and yahoo sitemap... it work fine for me. if you are not using this software then you can give it a try.. else i have no idea oledi... good luck...

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oh it's an external sitemap generator, the one I'm using that has problems is a plugin for wordpress, I'll try out this one, hopefully it works, thanks

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You boleh browse dan cari relevant link pasal google kat sini http://www.downlinemlm.com/mytips/vo...itemap....html

ok I tried the gsitecrawler, nice program, however I'm still getting the error Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable
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.

do we need a robots.txt file in the same directory as our sitemap?

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izzit all the pages got error or only robots.txt got the error???

if only robots.txt got the error... then you can ignore it..

robots.txt is used in order for you to block some spider from indexing a certain sub folder / files on your domain... if you are not blocking anything... then you can ignore...

alternatively you can create a blank "robots.txt" file using notepad and upload it into your main index folder....

for more info on your robots.txt plz refer to the below wikipedia website..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

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from Google Sitemaps it says Robots.txt unreacheable error. What should I do? upload a blank robots.txt file to my root folder and the folder that my wordpress is installed?

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Rejoice, I uploaded a robots.txt file to both my root directory and the folder that wordpress is installed and the error is gone, now to wait for google to index my pages, finally after so long. Thanks guys for the help.

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