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We’ve just launched some new features. The biggest change for those of you already using Sitemaps: if you’ve verified your site, you’ll see substantially more stats and error details. The biggest change for new users: you can now add a site to your account even before create a Sitemap for it. Once you’ve … Continue reading »

If your Sitemap status is “Denied URLs” and the error listed is “URL not under Sitemap path”, here are some things to check. Make sure the URL root matches If you submit your Sitemap using the path http://example.com/sitemap.xml, then the URLs in your Sitemap should begin with example.com. Any URLs that begin with … Continue reading »

So, you’ve submitted your Sitemap. How can you tell what Google knows about your site? You can use Google’s advanced search features to get a list of: search results from your site pages that link to your site pages that refer to your site’s URL You can also see information that we have … Continue reading »

Verification Once you verify your site, we show you additional statistics. We require verification to make sure that we only show these stats to site owners. When you verify, we ask you upload a unique text file to a particular directory on your webserver. Periodically, we check to see if this file still … Continue reading »

Just about a month ago, Google Sitemaps added new statistics about problems Google encountered crawling your pages. This stats page showed you up to three URLs we had trouble accessing for each type of error. You asked for more. So we’re giving you more. Now, once you verify your site, we’ll show you … Continue reading »

  If your site uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) 2.0 protocol, an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting, you can use your OAI repository as your Sitemap. Simply submit the baseURL of your OAI repository (for instance, http://www.example.com/oaiserver). When we query the baseURL, we automatically add query … Continue reading »