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March 15, 2006
We've just made some enhancements to the infrastructure that processes Sitemaps. You shouldn't
notice many changes, although you may see new and more
detailed error messages
for your Sitemaps. If you see a different error message than you've seen before, you can click on
it to view more information about it.
This change may cause some Sitemaps that used to have a status of OK to display an error message.
This is because we've enhanced our reporting to provide error information that wasn't available
to you before. For instance, if you see an "Invalid file format" error, make sure that you've
declared the namespace in your Sitemap file correctly and that the
header matches the examples we provide
in our documentation.
As part of this change, you can no longer list
Sitemap index files
within Sitemap index files. Each Sitemap index file can list only Sitemaps. Remember that you can
list up to 1,000 Sitemaps in each Sitemap index file. If you have more than 1,000 Sitemaps for a
site, you can submit multiple Sitemap index files.
We've also changed the verification
error message
we talked about in a recent blog post. If you request verification and we receive a status other
than 200 or 404 when we try to access a non-existent file on your site,
you'll now see an "HTTP error".
We expect this change to be a smooth one, but please let us know in our
Google Group
if you experience any trouble.
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