[Plugin: Google News Sitemap Generator] Sitemap error in Webmaster Tools – New Format?

Silverpurple,
i’ve just found new google news sitemap plugin that work with the new format

ciao

Hi Guys,

Sorry for the delay, I have been working on the update and testing it. The latest Google guidelines are not great and took a while for Google Webmaster tools to accept the new format.

Should all be fixed and conforming to the new format now though, let me know how you get on and if you have any further issues.

Thank you for the couple of people contributed to this plugin, any further donations would be very much appreciated and help with any future updates.

Chris.

Hi Chris,

I am facing same problem as silverpurple-
“Unsupported Sitemap format
Your Sitemap uses a News format that is no longer supported for newly-submitted sitemaps. Please update to the new format, which involves attaching a <publication> tag and other relevant tags to each url in your Sitemap.”

I have upgraded and using latest version of google news sitemap plugin.

Kindly help and resolve the issue ASAP

Thanks & Regards

Here is Some Sample of my current site map that i am using on my site –

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<urlset xmlns=”https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9&#8243;
xmlns:news=”https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9″&gt;
<url>
<loc>https://www.dailylatestresults.com/2009/11/14/maharashtra-state-board-msbshse-mahresult-hsc-10th-ssc12th-results-2009-0766</loc&gt;
<news:news>
<news:publication_date>2009-11-14T08:01:49Z</news:publication_date>
<news:keywords>Maharashtra, hsc results oct 2009, hsc october 2009, hsc results october 2009, hsc results 2009 maharashtra, hsc results, h.s.c result, hsc results 2009, msbshse, maharashtra board, mahresult, hsc board</news:keywords>
</news:news>

</url>
<url>
<loc>https://www.dailylatestresults.com/2009/11/13/results-fae-2009-ireland-0762</loc&gt;
<news:news>
<news:publication_date>2009-11-13T13:41:02Z</news:publication_date>
<news:keywords>World, Results, fae results</news:keywords>
</news:news>

</url>
</urlset>
<!– Last build time: November 14, 2009, 3:01 am–>

I also checked google for new sitemap tags here – https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74288
May be it will help you.

This is Correct Format provided by google

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<urlset xmlns=”https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9&#8243;
xmlns:n=”https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9″&gt;
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.org/business/article55.html</loc&gt;
<n:news>
<n:publication>
<n:name>The Example Times</n:name>
<n:language>en</n:language>
</n:publication>
<n:access>subscription</n:access>
<n:genres>pressrelease, blog</n:genres>
<n:publication_date>2008-12-23</n:publication_date>
<n:title>Companies A, B in Merger Talks</n:title>
<n:keywords>business, merger, acquisition, A, B</n:keywords>
<n:stock_tickers>NASDAQ:A, NASDAQ:B</n:stock_tickers>
</n:news>
</url>
</urlset>