adding sitemap to google

Which sitemap plugin? That’s a half dozen. Also please remember that versions are numbers, not ‘latest’ for a reason. For example latest version of Firefox is the 3-alpha.

Check to see if the files generated are readable worldride. Should be set to 644 or 666.

See here for more details.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

my files show 644. but google says

URL restricted by robots.txt
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.

when i try to add my sitemap ie.,

https://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

any solutions?

the sitemaps plugin is

https://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

version number 2.7.1

URL restricted by robots.txt

What’s in your robots.txt file?

when i visited https://www.mysite.com/robots.txt i saw this

User-agent: * Disallow:

is it ok?

No, that’s not okay. That will prevent Google or any other search engine from indexing your site.

Remove the file entirely if you want to be listed on Google and other search engines.

how to remove the file. where does the file reside. i opened ftp and could not find a file names robots.txt.

what should i do now?

Talk to your host. Only they can help you resolve that situation.

i uninstalled the google sitemaps plugin and installed the beta version of the same google sitemaps plugin and it worked. thanks for your replies.