[Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Google Webmaster Tools Warning

  • I’ve noticed that my posts aren’t getting indexed very quickly by Google anymore and looked into it. I think my sitemap might have something to do with it. I use the XML sitemap tool regularly.

    Google Webmaster tools said this about my sitemap:

    URLs not followed
    When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted.

    Details:

    HTTP Error:
    URL:
    Found: 302 (Moved temporarily) Help
    https://www.everyonebutyou.com/2008/01/…%94-1107-pm-est-the-state-of-the-union/
    Jun 17, 2008

    Any idea what’s going on here?

    Thanks,
    JMR

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  • Same problem here ??

    Grrrr Me too and yet another dead end for me.

    Do you have URLs that redirect in your sitemap? Your sitemap should only contain final destination URLs, no redirects. Have you tried regenerating your sitemap?

    gorp

    (@gorp)

    Had the same problem. I’m using 2.7.1. On the settings page, I changed my WordrPress Address (URL) and my Blog Address (URL) setting from https://domainname.com to https://www.domainname.com, submitted a new site map, and all errors were gone.

    complexity

    (@complexity)

    Its also because the sitemap isn’t being rebuilt with all the new posts anymore..thats why your indexing is horrible.

    xcap

    (@xcap)

    Same problem..

    I just have permalinks set to “Month and name” and all the links just point to my pages.?

    “Sitemap errors and warnings”

    “URLs not followed
    When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of redirecting to another URL.”

    xcap

    (@xcap)

    I ended up just uninstalling the module and taking the sitemap.xml file and stripped it down and rewrote it to standard sitemap protocol. Re submitted it and it works fine.

    I think something in the code the Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps is putting out buggy.

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