I have been having awful trouble trying to get my sitemaps set up but for some reason no matter what I tyr I can’t get them accepted. If anyone here can help or knows where I can go to get some help I’d be incredibly grateful.
I’ve left a message on Googles boards – and I’ve been truing to get a help e-mail to no avail.
Here is a copy of the message I posted which explains the problem in full::
Hi, I have recently signed up with Google and verified 2 sites (I'll list them as this may help with the question.)
http://www.asktravelinsurance.com and
http://www.audiobusinessseminars.com
The thing is i can't add a sitemap for either of them.
For example: In my webmaster tools i click on add sitemap (i've selected: http://www.asktravelinsurance.com)
I then go through to the next screen and choose the type: Add a general web sitemap, and i enter my google sitemap file (provided by hosting company), which is:
http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/google-sitemap.cfm (I got this from my host – Whypark)
So i select: Add Web Sitemap and get the following error message in red::
The Sitemap must be located at http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/. To add a Sitemap at http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/, first add that site to your account and then click the Add a Sitemap link beside it.
The sites are definitely verified as I thought this may have been the problem.
I can get crawl stats, query stats, page analysis - etc...
In the webmaster Dashboard they all have ticks by the side under verified.
everything seems to be okay from my end.
Any ideas???
I have also gone into summary for the site and selected: Preferred domain and set it as www.asktravelinsurance.com – when I did this it said sitemap not allowed.
So I have cleared that preference.
I then deleted them and entered them again and still I’m getting the same problem.
So please can someone try and help me with this, before I give up on computers altogether.
Thanks. James
I’ve left a message on Googles boards – and I’ve been truing to get a help e-mail to no avail.
Here is a copy of the message I posted which explains the problem in full::
Hi, I have recently signed up with Google and verified 2 sites (I'll list them as this may help with the question.)
http://www.asktravelinsurance.com and
http://www.audiobusinessseminars.com
The thing is i can't add a sitemap for either of them.
For example: In my webmaster tools i click on add sitemap (i've selected: http://www.asktravelinsurance.com)
I then go through to the next screen and choose the type: Add a general web sitemap, and i enter my google sitemap file (provided by hosting company), which is:
http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/google-sitemap.cfm (I got this from my host – Whypark)
So i select: Add Web Sitemap and get the following error message in red::
The Sitemap must be located at http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/. To add a Sitemap at http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/http://www.asktravelinsurance.com/, first add that site to your account and then click the Add a Sitemap link beside it.
The sites are definitely verified as I thought this may have been the problem.
I can get crawl stats, query stats, page analysis - etc...
In the webmaster Dashboard they all have ticks by the side under verified.
everything seems to be okay from my end.
Any ideas???
I have also gone into summary for the site and selected: Preferred domain and set it as www.asktravelinsurance.com – when I did this it said sitemap not allowed.
So I have cleared that preference.
I then deleted them and entered them again and still I’m getting the same problem.
So please can someone try and help me with this, before I give up on computers altogether.
Thanks. James
