Google Webmaster says "Missing XML tag"
MWildermuth - November 12, 2009 - 06:28
| Project: | XML sitemap |
| Version: | 6.x-2.0-unstable5 |
| Component: | Other |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
Hi,
I have been using xmlsitemap module for sometime, and it usually works, so I usually don't check my google webmaster. But today I noticed that google claims that their are errors in my xmlsitemap.
Google webmaster reports this:
Line:
6
Missing XML tag
This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
Parent tag: urlset
Tag: url
Problem detected on: Nov 11, 2009
Does anybody know whats going on here?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
#1
I've also noticed this same issue today. A client reported saying Webmaster reported errors, looked into the cache files and found the file didn't look complete and was missing the closing </urlset>.
Due to limitations of this module on large sites we've had to modify it and set a schedule task to run through and update the files every 15 minutes and only a small amount at a time or else it was dying. So I'm not sure if the problem is nodes associated to the xml file have changed which require the module to re-write the file and it just doesn't complete this action properly or not.
I've had to in the mean time manually edit the files to put the </urlset> on it.
[Edited by KiamLaLuno to show the XML tags that were not appearing]
#2
We are encouraging the use of the latest so-called ``alpha'' releases of 6.x-2.0 for larger sites. It is more optimized and has been rewritten from the start with optimization in mind. Please consider using the pre-release version 2 product to help resolve your issue.
#3
Thanks for the fast responses.
I updated my xmlsitemap module to 6.x-2.0 and now I see an xmlsitemap is actually being built which is better, but now google webmaster tools says:
Errors -
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.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance again.
#4
Can you share the link to your site?
#5
My site is:
http://whsale.com
the xmlsitemap is:
http://www.whsale.com/sitemap.xml
Thanks again for any help in advance.
Mike
#6
Odd...that worked just fine for me. It's very possible Google hasn't actually fetched your new sitemap.xml yet and is still displaying the 'errors' from the old one or from when you were switching versions. Maybe give it a day or so and report back if it's still a problem?
#7
It finally took this morning. So everything seems to be working now. Google recognized and accepted my sitemap through Google Webmaster.
Thanks for all the help. I love Drupal and it's developers!
Mike
#8
#9
Good to hear. We'll just leave this as fixed incase others have this problem and so they can find the issue.
#10
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.