Comments on: BANS Sitemap Issues – Resolved http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm Learn How to Build and Market Niche Websites Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:44:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Graham Jacksonhttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-14469 Graham Jackson Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:24:13 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-14469 I can’t seem to get this sitemap fix to work on my site. I deleted sitemap.php in Cpanel file manager & then uploaded the new sitemap.php to my site using GoFTP. I checked that it uploaded correctly.

Google is still giving me the same warning i.e.
“All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn’t impact your site’s performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can’t tell which are more important.”

I’ve tried this a few times. This is driving me nuts! Any suggestions?

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]]> By: Darrellhttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-14450 Darrell Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:02:40 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-14450 @MikeI the BANS sites that I have worked on, the htaccess file had a rewrite rule for siteMap.xml to be sitemap.php. But when I visited siteMap.xml through browser sometimes I would see the siteMap.xml file that was in the store files and not sitemap.php. I don't know why there was two sitemaps. (a static and a dynamic). If you visited sitemap.xml you'd get different results.After this sitemap.php update I changed the rule htaccess to lowercase to sitemap.xml and deleted the siteMap.xml file so I knew for sure that sitemap.php would be the only one. Also resubmitted to google was lowercase. I suppose you could just point your robots.txt and google webmaster tools to sitemap.php instead.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14450','Darrell'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14450','Darrell','@Mike\r\n\r\nI the BANS sites that I have worked on, the htaccess file had a rewrite rule for siteMap.xml to be sitemap.php. But when I visited siteMap.xml through browser sometimes I would see the siteMap.xml file that was in the store files and not sitemap.php. I don\'t know why there was two sitemaps. (a static and a dynamic). If you visited sitemap.xml you\'d get different results.\r\n\r\nAfter this sitemap.php update I changed the rule htaccess to lowercase to sitemap.xml and deleted the siteMap.xml file so I knew for sure that sitemap.php would be the only one. Also resubmitted to google was lowercase. I suppose you could just point your robots.txt and google webmaster tools to sitemap.php instead.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Mike

I the BANS sites that I have worked on, the htaccess file had a rewrite rule for siteMap.xml to be sitemap.php. But when I visited siteMap.xml through browser sometimes I would see the siteMap.xml file that was in the store files and not sitemap.php. I don’t know why there was two sitemaps. (a static and a dynamic). If you visited sitemap.xml you’d get different results.

After this sitemap.php update I changed the rule htaccess to lowercase to sitemap.xml and deleted the siteMap.xml file so I knew for sure that sitemap.php would be the only one. Also resubmitted to google was lowercase. I suppose you could just point your robots.txt and google webmaster tools to sitemap.php instead.

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]]> By: Mikehttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-13860 Mike Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:05:45 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-13860 I've tried this fix and I've tried the upgraded code from BANS and I'm still getting sitemap warnings. ("All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority. ") The odd thing is that I've gone so far as to comment out the line for priority and Google still gives the same error. According to Google and sitemap.org priority is optional. Still looking for a solution that works.Mike<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13860','Mike'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13860','Mike','I\'ve tried this fix and I\'ve tried the upgraded code from BANS and I\'m still getting sitemap warnings. (\"All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority. \") The odd thing is that I\'ve gone so far as to comment out the line for priority and Google still gives the same error. According to Google and sitemap.org priority is optional. Still looking for a solution that works.\r\n\r\nMike'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’ve tried this fix and I’ve tried the upgraded code from BANS and I’m still getting sitemap warnings. (“All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority. “) The odd thing is that I’ve gone so far as to comment out the line for priority and Google still gives the same error. According to Google and sitemap.org priority is optional. Still looking for a solution that works.

Mike

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]]> By: Deanhttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12222 Dean Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:46:53 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-12222 Nevermind, it worked, but Hostgator just happened to go down at the same time. They came back a few minutes later. Talk about scaring the hell out of me!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('12222','Dean'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('12222','Dean','Nevermind, it worked, but Hostgator just happened to go down at the same time. They came back a few minutes later. Talk about scaring the hell out of me!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Nevermind, it worked, but Hostgator just happened to go down at the same time. They came back a few minutes later. Talk about scaring the hell out of me!
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]]> By: Deanhttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12221 Dean Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:23:00 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-12221 Help!I've updated the sitemap.php file on two of my sites and now all of my sites are returning a 500 internal sever error message.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('12221','Dean'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('12221','Dean','Help!\r\n\r\nI\'ve updated the sitemap.php file on two of my sites and now all of my sites are returning a 500 internal sever error message.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Help!

I’ve updated the sitemap.php file on two of my sites and now all of my sites are returning a 500 internal sever error message.

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]]> By: Marillahttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12218 Marilla Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:00:27 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-12218 thanks, Mark - done!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('12218','Marilla'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('12218','Marilla','thanks, Mark - done!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> thanks, Mark – done!
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]]> By: Stevehttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12210 Steve Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:33:46 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-12210 Hi all,Could someone explain further this 404 issue please?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('12210','Steve'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('12210','Steve','Hi all,\r\n\r\nCould someone explain further this 404 issue please?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hi all,

Could someone explain further this 404 issue please?

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]]> By: Cheriehttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12183 Cherie Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:50:17 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-12183 I've now had an update from Hostgator to the 404 error and this is their reply:-The only other method to produce a proper 404 page that is not our status 200 page would be to set a custom "ErrorDocument" directive for 404 pages in your .htaccess file and have a custom page designed to handle errors. For instance you could create a directory called error and put an httperror.php script in there to handle errors, and then add the following directive to your .htaccess file to pass errors to this page :ErrorDocument 404 /error/httperror.phpSo this may help further<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('12183','Cherie'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('12183','Cherie','I\'ve now had an update from Hostgator to the 404 error and this is their reply:-\r\n\r\nThe only other method to produce a proper 404 page that is not our status 200 page would be to set a custom \"ErrorDocument\" directive for 404 pages in your .htaccess file and have a custom page designed to handle errors. For instance you could create a directory called error and put an httperror.php script in there to handle errors, and then add the following directive to your .htaccess file to pass errors to this page :\r\n\r\nErrorDocument 404 \/error\/httperror.php\r\n\r\n\r\nSo this may help further'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’ve now had an update from Hostgator to the 404 error and this is their reply:-

The only other method to produce a proper 404 page that is not our status 200 page would be to set a custom “ErrorDocument” directive for 404 pages in your .htaccess file and have a custom page designed to handle errors. For instance you could create a directory called error and put an httperror.php script in there to handle errors, and then add the following directive to your .htaccess file to pass errors to this page :

ErrorDocument 404 /error/httperror.php

So this may help further

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]]> By: Ghttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12181 G Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:23:24 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-12181 That's great, thanks for posting it up.Had 3 sites showing that error and was starting to worry about it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('12181','G'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('12181','G','That\'s great, thanks for posting it up.\r\n\r\nHad 3 sites showing that error and was starting to worry about it.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> That’s great, thanks for posting it up.

Had 3 sites showing that error and was starting to worry about it.

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]]> By: Markhttp://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12179 Mark Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:10:26 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/bans-sitemap-issues-resolved.htm#comment-12179 @ Costa -There should be no need to resubmit the sitemap - Google will find it on their next visit to the xml doc.@ Cherie -The 404 issue is rather signifigant as we are returning status 200 (Page found and OK) messages to browsers (and search engines) even when a page does not exist.I have contacted Kelvin about it as well... and I assume there will need to be a code tweak in order to get it returning the proper status codes. It may be something as simple as a change in the htaccess file, but I have not looked into myself yet either.Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('12179','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('12179','Mark','@ Costa -\r\n\r\nThere should be no need to resubmit the sitemap - Google will find it on their next visit to the xml doc.\r\n\r\n@ Cherie -\r\n\r\nThe 404 issue is rather signifigant as we are returning status 200 (Page found and OK) messages to browsers (and search engines) even when a page does not exist.\r\n\r\nI have contacted Kelvin about it as well... and I assume there will need to be a code tweak in order to get it returning the proper status codes. It may be something as simple as a change in the htaccess file, but I have not looked into myself yet either.\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ Costa -

There should be no need to resubmit the sitemap – Google will find it on their next visit to the xml doc.

@ Cherie -

The 404 issue is rather signifigant as we are returning status 200 (Page found and OK) messages to browsers (and search engines) even when a page does not exist.

I have contacted Kelvin about it as well… and I assume there will need to be a code tweak in order to get it returning the proper status codes. It may be something as simple as a change in the htaccess file, but I have not looked into myself yet either.

Mark

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