Post by msltd11 » Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:49 pm

Hi,

I am new to open cart when trying to submit site map to google using the google site map link provided within opencart i get the below error on google webmaster tools

Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.

weblink to google site map is domain.co.uk/index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap

currently using 1.5.1.3 with no mods.

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Post by uksitebuilder » Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:30 pm

The sitemap is returning errors at a guess which Google is interpreting as HTML

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Post by sanne » Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:41 am

I have the same problem with 1 site in 1.5.1.3
My other site does not have this problem.

Is there more info on how to solve this?

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Mikado martial arts -martial arts books and DVD's
Tai chi toko - Everything for tai chi and Qigong
The pocket-stick shop - kubotans and tactical flashlights


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Post by uksitebuilder » Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:26 pm

a link might help ?

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Post by sanne » Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:28 pm

Hello,

I think I already solved it. The productnames had some invalid characters voor the sitemap.

The link is
http://www.mikadomartialarts.nl/index.p ... le_sitemap

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Post by uksitebuilder » Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:44 am

seems to be fine now

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Post by siloam » Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:17 am

Hello,

I have a strange google sitemap bug too.

http://artificialflowersworld.com/index ... le_sitemap

I don't know what's wrong, but google doesn't want to accept this :/

Any ideas?

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Post by siloam » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:57 am

Strange. I checked my sitemap via http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html and it seems that there is no errors. So why I can see an error message in my webmaster tools account?

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Post by siloam » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:27 am

Solved! Google Webmaster Tools treat google_sitemap page as na normal page. Not as sitemap. .xml extension is required now.

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Post by netstrada » Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:32 am

so how to change it for .xml ?

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Post by uksitebuilder » Wed Dec 23, 2015 4:27 pm

Previous poster was incorrect.

However, if you really want to submit it as sitemap.xml then most likely you already have that set-up in your .htaccess and as long as you have that file enabled (e.g. renamed from .htaccess.txt to .htaccess)

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Post by dochsa » Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:38 pm

Hi All

I really need some help, with Google site map, we have spent hours on a developer and discussing with our hosters and Google and still have not found a solution. So any help or insight is much appreciated.

Out sitemap is:
https://shop.dochsa.com/index.php?route ... le_sitemap

We had shared hosting and the site map worked fine and Google was crawling the site. Because of speed issues we moved to VPS. Since then we have the following errors on Google Web Master Tools:
# Type Issue Description Issues count Example Line Detected
1

Errors
Invalid URL
This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit.
8
Parent tag: image
Tag: loc
1
Feb 2, 2016
Parent tag: image
Tag: loc
1
Feb 2, 2016
Parent tag: image
Tag: loc
1
Feb 2, 2016

We have checked and the sitemap is rendering OK, the htaccess file is set correctly, robot.text is there. We are just not able to nail why these errors are occurring and where they are to fix them.

Because of these error Google has stopped crawling our site. Anyone face this issue and how did you fix it.

Site URL if you need is: https://shop.dochsa.com

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Post by p1repair » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:09 pm

dochsa Did you ever find a solution? I am having the same problem and can find nothing on it.

webmaster tools reports 171 errors, all "This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit." Images have no base URL.... just "image/cache/catalog/uniden-wxi3077-2-500x500.jpg"

missing http://URL

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Post by R_D » Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:24 pm

p1repair wrote:dochsa Did you ever find a solution? I am having the same problem and can find nothing on it.

webmaster tools reports 171 errors, all "This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit." Images have no base URL.... just "image/cache/catalog/uniden-wxi3077-2-500x500.jpg"

missing http://URL

I've got exactly the same error, still looking for a solution....

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Post by lemiral » Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:24 pm

in google webmasters,
<loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>

but in open cart site map,
<loc>http://www.example.com/sample.html</loc>

is this the problem?

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Post by lemiral » Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:54 am

very strange.
click /index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap,
search image:loc/,
images of these products are missing.
if there is a 3 errors, 3 images are missing.
upload them,
upload sitemap
very strange :)

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